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People who exercise regularly during their leisure time are less likely to report symptoms of depression and anxiety according to a study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, conducted with 40 000 Norwegians.

But physical activity part of daily work does not have this protective effect, the study suggests. Social interactions that enable physical activity during leisure time appear to the right, at least in part, the link between exercise and improved mental health, concluding Samuel Harvey and his colleagues at King’s College London and University of Bergen in Norway .

People who were not physically active during their leisure time were twice as likely to report symptoms of depression compared with those who were most active. But the intensity of exercise did not seem to make a difference.

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