People who get a certain number of daily steps were found to have fewer depressive symptoms and less risk of depression, ...

Compared to a baseline of 5,000 steps taken per day, folks who took even 1,000 more steps daily saw a 9% drop in their odds for developing depression, the researchers found.

But now, a groundbreaking review suggests far fewer steps are needed - when trying to tackle depression at least. Physical exercise has long been known to play a vital role in improving mental ...

It helped her recovery. I love backwards walking because ... meaning researchers cannot say if taking steps impacts depression or if people with depression just move less, Choi said.The movements ...

Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News Can you literally step away from depression? A new global review of data found that "increasing the number of daily steps, even at modest levels, was associated ...

Understanding how people recover from depression is key to improving treatments ... individuals to engage more with life and take steps toward behavioral changes. “We had expected that people ...

A new meta-analysis (Bizzozero-Peroni et al., 2024) published in JAMA Network Open highlights the mental health benefits of walking. This study shows that higher daily step counts are linked to ...

Higher daily step counts are associated with fewer depressive symptoms in adults, according to a systematic review.

In the paper, published December 16 in JAMA Network Open, researchers found that adults who walked 5,000 or more steps a day had fewer depression symptoms compared to people who walked less.

A recent study found that increasing your daily step count may reduce symptoms — as well as risk — of depression. The study, conducted by Bruno Bizzozero-Peroni, Valentina Díaz-Goñi and ...