{"id":1527,"date":"2011-03-08T05:34:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T12:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2020-01-24T19:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T02:45:15","slug":"5-keys-to-treating-depression-through-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/2011\/03\/08\/5-keys-to-treating-depression-through-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Keys to Treating Depression through Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 19 million people in the United States suffer from some form of depression ranging from mild to severe. It&#8217;s hard to imagine that something as seemingly intangible as the feeling of sadness is governed by science, but it&#8217;s true. \u00a0 Emotions, like everything else found inside our bodies, can be broken down into chemical equations. The upside of this is that you can sometimes take charge of which emotions your brain generates by altering the things you do every day. 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