{"id":534831,"date":"2010-04-19T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/19\/treat-depression-with-exercise\/"},"modified":"2010-04-19T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T20:21:00","slug":"treat-depression-with-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534831","title":{"rendered":"Treat Depression with Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/advice\/\" rel=\"tag\">Advice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/happiness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Happiness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/fitness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Fitness<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/04\/depression-exercise-294.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=Depression\">Depression<\/a> is the most common mental illness in Canada. In particular, young adult women experience a higher rate of depression than at any other period across the lifespan and the rate of depression in women aged 18-24 years is at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phac-aspc.gc.ca\/publicat\/miic-mmac\/pdf\/men_ill_e.pdf\" >two times higher than the rate in men<\/a> in the same age group. Medication and\/or talking therapies are the front-line treatment strategies for depression. However, many people do not seek treatment, or wait too long to receive treatment. <\/p>\n<p>Health professionals can never fully meet the need for treatment in mental health care and thus it&#8217;s also useful to look at other strategies that could reach a broader population who can&#8217;t access therapy or prefer not to use medication. One alternative strategy may be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=exercise\">exercise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/19\/treat-depression-with-exercise\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Treat Depression with Exercise<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/19\/treat-depression-with-exercise\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19440187\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/19\/treat-depression-with-exercise\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Advice, Happiness, Health, Fitness Depression is the most common mental illness in Canada. In particular, young adult women experience a higher rate of depression than at any other period across the lifespan and the rate of depression in women aged 18-24 years is at least two times higher than the rate in men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}