Healthy lifestyle can help prevent depression: New research may explain why

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Healthy lifestyle can help prevent depression: New research may explain why
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A healthy lifestyle that involves moderate alcohol consumption, a healthy diet, regular physical activity, healthy sleep and frequent social connection, while avoiding smoking and too much sedentary behavior, reduces the risk of depression, new research has found.

by 14%, never smoking by 20%, and low-to-moderate sedentary behavior by 13%.

In people at high, medium, and low genetic risk for depression, the team further found that a healthy lifestyle can cut the risk of depression. This research underlines the importance of living a healthy lifestyle for preventing depression, regardless of a person's genetic risk. To understand why a healthy lifestyle might reduce the risk of depression, the team studied a number of other factors.

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