Grouchiness Happens. Walk It Off.

ARTICLE FROM WASH. POST 1-31-2006
Grouchiness Happens. Walk It Off.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006; HE03

Your loyal Moving Crew correspondent has reported on many studies showing that exercise helps relieve symptoms of depression. We also know that people who are not clinically depressed but have periodic lapses into grouchy, scowly, stress-addled, short-tempered gloom -- which is to say, you, me and most of our earthly cohabitants -- report feeling better after working out.

A new study demonstrates, for the first time, that a single ses sion of moderate-intensity exercise improves important mood markers of depression. This was after, essentially, one 30-minute walk.

The study was done on people with major depressive disorder, a serious clinical condition. But the researchers believe that the single-session mood-lift also applies to those of us who just feel lousy.

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