Moderate exercise works about as well as therapy for depression

Moderate-intensity exercise has "a similar effect on depressive symptoms" as psychotherapy, according to Medical Xpress. Not high-intensity, gut-busting workouts — moderate stuff, like brisk walks, swimming laps, or riding a bike without pretending you're in the Tour de France.

A Cochrane Review of 73 randomized controlled trials involving about 5,000 patients, led by Andrew Clegg at the University of Lancashire, found exercise had a "moderate impact" on depressive symptoms when measured against doing nothing.