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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Politics
Natasha May

Nutrition and exercise as good as therapy for mild and moderate depression, study says

A woman running on beach
Participants who undertook lifestyle therapy were given advice on moving more each day and improving their food intake in line with a modified Mediterranean diet. Photograph: Wander Women Collective/Getty Images

Lifestyle therapy including nutritional counselling and physical activity is just as helpful as traditional psychotherapy for reducing non-severe depression, according to a new study.

Researchers from Deakin University’s Food and Mood Centre say their world-first findings show dieticians and exercise physiologists could be trained and redeployed to be part of the mental health workforce, helping to alleviate staff shortages.

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