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Depression

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Natural Ways to Fight Depression

Turn Off the TV

Turn Off the TV

Add this to the list of reasons to walk away from the boob tube. In a 14-year study of nearly 50,000 women, those who watched three hours of TV a day were 13% more likely to be depressed than those who found better things to do (such as exercise, which reduced depression risk by 20%).

By Natalie Gingerich Mackenzie. Published February 21, 2012. Natalie Gingerich Mackenzie is a health and fitness writer in Syracuse, NY and author of the newly-released book Tone Every Inch (Rodale, 2012).
Reviewed by Joe Sclafani, MD on April 13, 2015.