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Walk Yourself to Wellbeing: Professor Shane O'Mara

A New Way of Being

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The Sedentary Component of Depression

The World Health Organization has suggested that for non-communicable diseases, depression is going to be the number one condition. Rates of depression in the Western world or in the developed world have been rising over the past 30 years. For every level of walking that you engage in above the most sedentary, you are less likely just to come to depression. It may well be the case that there's a kind of a sedentary component to the onset of depression.

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