Bicycling magazine: Exercise improves ADHD, Depression, and Anxiety

Bicycling Magazine recently ran a few interesting articles on how exercise can help improve symptoms of ADHD, Depression, and Anxiety, as well as boosting memory. While everyone knows that keeping fit and active is one of the keys to staying physically healthy, it is interesting to see how this is finally being recognized and quantified in the field of mental health as well. The first article is not particularly detailed, but offers a good, high level, overview: http://bicycling.com/article/0,6610,s1-3-12-21052-1,00.html

Additionally, one of the articles went into a surprising amount of detail about the power of the pharmaceutical industry and how they direct the public focus at drug treatments, at the expense of public awareness of alternatives. Bicycling points out that the first studies of exercise as an ADHD treatment were done 30-years ago, yet few people are aware that there are equally effective alternatives to drugs. They suggest that this may be due to the large pharmaceutical industry contributions to the various advocacy organizations, although the general sentiment is that, over the last few years, organizations like CHADD (Children and Adults with ADHD) have made a concerted effort to also share information on alternative therapies for ADHD: http://bicycling.com/article/0,6610,s1-3-12-21051-1,00.html