How Your Mental Health Reaps the Benefits of Exercise

My last post concerned that beneficial effects of exercise on physical functioning. Research also shows large benefits for mental health. Studies are now showing that exercise appears to be as good as existing drug treatments across a range of conditions, such as mild to moderate depression, anxiety, and dementia.
We do not have to do marathons. Just about any amount is beneficial. Below is a great article from Psychology Today on this issue.

How Your Mental Health Reaps the Benefits of Exercise

New research shows why physical exercise is essential to mental health.

New research shows marathoners have less arthritis than non-runners

Many people have heard that higher mileage running is bad for the knees and increases the chance of arthritis. There has never been any good evidenceto support that contention. A new study from the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery showed that long term marathoners had half the incidence of knee and hip osteoarthritis as matched controls of non runners.
Does this surprise anyone?
New research shows marathoners have less arthritis than non-runners

New Physical Activity Guidelines Urge Americans: Move More, Sit Less

New federal exercise guidelines have changed the needed exercise duration from 10 minutes to a couple minutes. New research has shown that it is the total exercise volume and not the length of exercise bouts that is important. Also we have learned of many more benefits of exercise since the first guidelines were released 10 years ago.
Are you getting your recommended amount of exercise?
New Physical Activity Guidelines Urge Americans: Move More, Sit Less

Going from the 38 year old winner of the Boston Marathon to the 91 year old woman who just set an over 90 year old age group female marathon record.

hoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/91-old-marathoner-smokes-competition-153723959--abc-news-health.html

Ok...now getting of the topic of epidural steroid injections. I and many others were very excited to see an American male win the prestigious Boston Marathon for the first time in 21 years! Here is an Interview with Meb Keflezighi's chiropractic physician.

http://www.toyourhealth.com/mpacms/tyh/article.php?id=1978