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Research has shown that exercise has shown significant mood-lifting power. Duke University publishers produced results of a study in which they divided depressed patients ages 50-77 into three groups. The first group did 30 minutes of jogging or brisk walking three times a week; the second took the antidepressants Zoloft and the third group did both. After four months, patients in all three groups were doing equally well; the medication offered no particular advantage over working out except in relieving the symptoms a little faster. When researchers followed up later they found a major difference between the types of treatment. One-third of the patients that improved on Zoloft had relapsed whereas 92 percent of those benefiting from just aerobic exercise program were still doing well.

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