Let me share with you a few studies about the effect of this kind of life style.
我和你们分享几个关于这种生活方式的影响的研究
This was done by Michael Babyak and his colleagues at Duke Medical School.
是由迈克尔·白贝艾克以及他在杜克大学医学院的同事共同完成的
This was a very important study that launched other numerous studies that replicated this
这是个很重要的研究 做了很多很多的实验
and showed how this applies, how exercise is important just for depression, also for other areas.
模仿这个 并显示出这有多现实 锻炼有多重要 不仅对于抑郁 还有其他方面
So what Michael Babyak did was bringing in 156 patients with major depression.
迈克尔·白贝艾克做的实验是 找了156个抑郁症患者
These are people who have a number of symptoms, among which are insomnia,
这些人有各种各样的症状 包括失眠
eating disorders, listlessness-lack of desire to act, depressed mood,
饮食不规律 无精打采 不愿动弹 情绪低落
many of them suicidal with attempts or thoughts about suicide and on and on.
其中很多人都有自杀的想法或倾向 诸如此类
These people who are in bad, very bad shape.
这些人身体都非常不好
And he brought them into the lab and randomly divided them into 3 groups.
他将他们带到实验室 随机分为三组
The first group was the exercise group; second group was put on medication;
第一组是锻炼组 第二组服药
and the third group was put on medication and exercise.
第三组既服药又锻炼
The kind of medication was the antidepressant, Zoloft,
他们所服用的药是抗抑郁药 左洛复
the second most popular, common antidepressant after Prozac-very powerful; works.
继百忧解之后最普遍的抗抑郁药 非常有效
A lot of studies, compared to placebos, showing that Zoloft works. An SSRI.
很多研究 以安慰剂为对照 证明左洛复是有效的 是一种选择性5-羟色胺再摄取抑制剂
The exercise that they were put on was 30 minutes of moderate difficulty-so
他们所做的运动是半个小时中等难度的
aerobic physical exercise-so it could be jogging or race-walking; it could be swimming.
有氧运动 可能是慢跑或者竞走 也可能是游泳