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Media Relations

Beating the blues with exercise

C-Health
Feb. 1, 2008

If winter and the holiday season in particular, get you down or cause you to feel depressed -- take heart. A clinical study showed that exercise is as effective as medication at beating the blues. Exactly how exercise works remains a mystery. "We do know that the benefits or effects of exercise are not dependent upon endorphin release, because we find mood improvements and psychological benefits occurring in exercise doses that are too mild to result in much endorphin production," Dr. Raglin of Indiana University, an authority on exercise and depression, explained in an interview.

Read the entire story at: http://chealth.canoe.ca/channel_section_details.asp?text_id=2129&channel_id=11&relation_id=27878

Learn more about the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation at: http://www.hper.indiana.edu/

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