Sitting and Depression

A prescription for depression in a middle-aged woman should include getting up and moving around, according to findings from a 9-year study of 8,950 women taking part in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. In that study, women who sat for > 7 hours a day and did no physical activity had 3 times the risk of depression than that of women who sat ≤ 4 hours a day and met physical activity guidelines.