ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA — What’s better for your health? Movement or medication? New findings out of Australia show that staying in motion can do a world of good for mental health. Notably, study authors from the University of South Australia add that exercise appears to be more effective for mental well-being than other common remedies such as prescription drugs or therapy.

Largely ignored and pushed aside in years past, poor mental health has emerged in recent decades as a modern problem of epidemic proportions. Everyone gets the blues from time to time, but what can you do when depression and anxiety start impeding on day-to-day life? There’s no easy answer to that question, and what works for one person may not help the next.

Poor mental health is as nuanced as it is difficult to treat, but the research team believes exercise should most definitely be a mainstay approach for managing depression. Why? The study finds regular physical activity was 1.5 times more effective than either counseling or the leading […]