Each year over
19 million people develop depression, and while medication and psychotherapy
are effective, they can be costly and not easily accessible.
The World Health Organization
predicts that by the year 2020, depression will be the most common health
problem in the world and will become the second most common cause for disability
and premature death. In addition to the tremendous emotional toll caused
by depression, the economic impact it will have on our nation is alarming.
Experts estimate
that the cost will skyrocket to more than 50 billion dollars each year
due to lost time, reduced productivity at work, and increased expenses
in health care management. A startling report by the National Depressive
and Manic Depressive Association concluded that 55 % of people with depression
are neither diagnosed nor treated by their primary family physicians and
even when they are diagnosed, only one third receive adequate
care.
The obstacles
to seeking help are compounded by a health care system that is commonly
unresponsive to the needs of depressed individuals with managed care providers
discouraging people from seeking help for their depression.
What is needed
is an alternative therapy that is effective, inexpensive, and available
to everyone. The new book Feeling Good for Life fills this void by providing
a clinically tested treatment that is equal to psychotherapy and antidepressants
in effectiveness, costs less than a day’s supply of Prozac or one session
of psychotherapy, and takes up less then 1 percent of the time available
during the day.
Feeling Good
for Life represents the dawn of a new era in the way depression will be
treated from now on. Over 20 years of research shows that there is absolutely
no difference between psychotherapy, antidepressant medication, and regular
exercise in improving depression. In fact, exercise has even been shown
to be more effective than popular antidepressant drugs such as Zoloft in
preventing depression.
Sadly, not a
single book has ever focused on providing this life saving knowledge to
the general public to alleviate the widespread suffering caused by depression.
Feeling Good for Life remedies this problem by being first book to integrate
the research on the powerful antidepressant effects of exercise and nutrition
into an economically viable system for people to use to drive away the
“blues.”
Feeling Good
for Life supplies the knowledge needed for people to recognize that they
have the power within themselves to take control of their emotions by taking
control of their body. Feeling Good for Life provides over 10 different
aerobic and anaerobic exercise routines and demonstrates over 40 different
weight training and stretching exercises that can be used by the beginning
exerciser to the most advanced.
Feeling Good
for Life also includes the Nutrition-4-Life Diet, which is a specially
formulated nutrition plan that will help stabilize insulin levels and promote
the increase of vital chemical such as serotonin and endorphins. Together,
the Feeling Good for Life Exercise Solution and Nutrition-4-Life Diet will
provide people with everything they need to begin exercising regularly,
eat properly, and live life the way it is meant to be lived–healthy, strong,
and depression free.
Author Marcos
Salazar combines his expertise in psychology with his wide experience as
a certified personal trainer and incorporates each into one of the most
authoritative resources on exercise, nutrition, and psychological health.
Salazar also uses his physiological and endocrinology research on alternative
treatments for depression by utilizing research such as his article Alpha
Lipoic Acid: A Novel Treatment for Depression recently published in Medical
Hypothesis (2000) to provide Feeling Good for Life with an unrivaled scientific
background for a book on mental health.
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