Exercise crucial for good health in depression patients

Exercise may be just as crucial to a depression patient's good health as finding an effective antidepressant, say scientists who found that the high fitness level at middle-age can protect the heart from the negative effects of the mental disorder.

Researchers University of Texas in the US has brought into focus multiple ways in which depression can affect health and mortality.

It has also explored the most common dilemma among patients - How does one cope with hopelessness and still find motivation to exercise?