Originally Posted by ThermionicScott

I enjoyed the article posted by the OP, but find it a little weird and frustrating that much writing about depression just treats it as a condition that increasing numbers of people mysteriously have, and then uses that as a launching point to discuss drugs and possibly exercise as therapies for it, when that seems to approach the whole thing backward! It seems more that we evolved around a general activity level, and that many parts of the body suffer when we don't get enough. So a healthy diet and exercise ought to be the starting point for treating depression, not a sidebar to it.