Exercise may help alleviate depression, review finds
Yet fatigue and pain can make sport participation seem daunting. And although things are improving following the success of the Paralympics, access remains a major barrier. Just 18% of people with a disability or long-term limiting illness participate in sport each week, around half the level of the general population, according to a survey by Sport England. “You don’t have to eat a lot to put on weight if you’re not moving and your body isn’t burning calories,” says Vanessa Daobri, a gym instructor who specialises in working with people with disabilities.
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“There are lots of ideas about potential mechanisms, but I don’t think there is enough evidence in the literature that one mechanism applies more than another,” Mead said. The researchers were also unable to say which type of exercise is best, but Mead said previous reviews have recommended people choose an activity that they’ll stick with over the long run. “Once people are prescribed exercise or they choose exercise, the big challenge is to make the exercise real,” Dr. Madhukar Trivedi, who has studied the effect of exercise on depression but wasn’t involved with the new research, told Reuters Health.
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Exercise not a quick fix for insomnia, research shows
Her research also shows that people unlike me tend to exercise less following nights with when they dont get enough sleep. Thats not because the lack of a good nights sleep makes people less physically able to exercise the next day, as you might think. Sleeping poorly doesnt change aerobic capacity, says Dr Baron. It just changes mindsets, peoples perception of their exertion, she says. They feel more exhausted. In other words, people like me are not really exhausted.
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