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What Type of Exercise Is Best for Mental Health?

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A large new study looks at how exercise can help alleviate symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Scroll To Top When you head to your weekly yoga class or lift weights at the gym, you’re doing something good for your physical health: getting more fit today, and so protecting your body into the future. What you may not always think about, though, is that you’re also protecting yourself from anxiety and depression—about as much as you would be if you were going to therapy or taking medication. At least that’s the conclusion of a very large new study that synthesizes decades of research on exercise and mental health. The study doesn’t just provide this key insight—in fact, the researchers wer

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