What form of exercise has helped your mental helth the most?

Where to start? You say you link to a study, but you link to a letter to the editor, from 2006, in a minor unimportant journal about primary care ("Primary Care Companion to The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry"). You don't appear to know who Cochrane are, nor what they do, so you dismiss them as a "single source" -- this is evidence of your bias, and you need to learn to correct it.

one source.

Do you know what a meta analysis is? Your comment here shows that you don't know the reputation of the Cochrane Collaboration (often described as the gold standard of medical research) and that you don't know what a meta analysis is. Have a read of the Wikipedia links I provided: Cochrane are well respected across the world for the work they do. The "Primary Care Companion to The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry"? Not so much.

A meta analysis will look at all the existing studies. Some of those are such poor quality they can't be included; all the rest are included and an analysis is performed on the data and results. This means that my single source includes the "1000s" of studies you talk about (and note that they rejected many of them for being such poor quality).

You just seem to be rather negative, maybe because you don't want to commit to tough exercise or diet?

I think people with a potentially fatal illness deserve treatment that's safe and effective. I think fuckwits who don't know what they're talking about should stop giving medical advice to people at risk of death.

For the sake of clarity: You're one of those fuckwits.

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