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  "textContent": "\n\nModerate-intensity exercise has \"a similar effect on depressive symptoms\" as psychotherapy, according to Medical Xpress. Not high-intensity, gut-busting workouts — moderate stuff, like brisk walks, swimming laps, or riding a bike without pretending you're in the Tour de France.\n\nA Cochrane Review of 73 randomized controlled trials involving about 5,000 patients, led by Andrew Clegg at the University of Lancashire, found exercise had a \"moderate impact\" on depressive symptoms when measured against doing nothing. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Moderate exercise works about as well as therapy for depression appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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