{"id":2248,"date":"2011-10-19T17:08:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T00:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2011-10-20T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T01:00:09","slug":"antidepressant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/2011\/10\/19\/antidepressant\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Antidepressant is Right For You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Team Beachbody workout DVD's\" href=\"http:\/\/store.howtobefit.com\/merchant2\/merchant.mvc\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howtobefit.com\/pics\/P90x.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P90X\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"RIGHT\" \/><\/a>Which antidepressant is right for you &#8211; pills or a healthy lifestyle that includes regular exercise?<\/p>\n<p>More than one in 10 Americans over the age of 12 takes an antidepressant, a class of drugs that has become wildly popular in the past several decades, U.S. government researchers said today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howtobefit.com\/pics\/mdb\/antidepressants.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Antidepressants\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"161\" height=\"127\" align=\"LEFT\" \/>Antidepressants were the third-most common drug used by Americans of all ages between 2005 and 2008 and they were the most common drug among people aged 18 to 44, according to an analysis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s National Center for Health Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>The team analyzed data on more than 12,000 Americans who took part in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys between 2005 and 2008.<\/p>\n<p>They found that antidepressant use in the United States jumped nearly 400 percent in the 2005-2008 survey period compared with the 1988-1994 period, with 11 percent of those over age 12 taking the drugs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/10\/19\/us-usa-antidepressants-idUSTRE79I7FI20111019\" target=\"_blank\">Continued&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which antidepressant is right for you &#8211; pills or a healthy lifestyle that includes regular exercise? More than one in 10 Americans over the age of 12 takes an antidepressant, a class of drugs that has become wildly popular in the past several decades, U.S. government researchers said today. Antidepressants were the third-most common drug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[994,995,996],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-miscellaneous-posts","tag-antidepressants","tag-antidepressant-use-in-us","tag-anitdepressant-use-in-the-united-states","czr-hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Which Antidepressant is Right For You? - Coach Rich Dafter&#039;s Fitness, Strength and Endurance Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/2011\/10\/19\/antidepressant\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Which Antidepressant is Right For You? - Coach Rich Dafter&#039;s Fitness, Strength and Endurance Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Which antidepressant is right for you &#8211; pills or a healthy lifestyle that includes regular exercise? 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