Too much TV and Too little Exercise causes Depression

When one is depressed, he/she can spend the whole day in bed, don’t want to eat and can’t get a good night rest. All of us wanted to cheer our day up even though some of the situations are too depressing. Everyone tried and did their very best to get depression off the crack.

But what if depression strikes in an unexpected, natural and subtle way?

According to findings published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, researchers found out that women who reported exercising the most in recent years were about 20 percent less likely to get depression than those who rarely exercised.

On the other hand, the more hours they spent watching TV each week, the more their risk of depression crept up.

An author named Michel Lucas says that “higher levels of physical activity were (–foul word(s) removed–)ociated with lower depression risk and more time spent being active might boost self-esteem and women’s sense of control, as well as the endorphins in their blood, although the study could not prove directly that watching too much television and avoiding exercise caused depression.”

A survey which was conducted every couple of years as part of the U.S. Nurses’ Health Study, covered the years 1992 to 2006 was conducted to 50,000 women to record he amount of time they spent watching TV each week in 1992, and also answered questions about how often they walked, biked, ran and swam between 1992 and 2000.

After the researchers accounted for aspects of health and lifestyle linked to depression, including weight, smoking and a range of diseases, exercising the most — 90 minutes or more each day — meant women were 20 percent less likely to be diagnosed with depression than those who exercised 10 minutes or less a day.

Women who watched three hours or more of television a day were 13 percent more likely to be diagnosed with depression than those who hardly ever tuned in, but Lucas said at least part of that link might be due to women replacing time they could be exercising with TV watching.

So, don’t get depress because it’s an illness that somehow, you just don’t know, it’ll explode!