Source: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100128/Regular-exercise-and-drinking-tea-may-reduce-depression-in-breast-cancer-patients.aspx

The Journal of Clinical Oncology reports the work of Dr. Xiao Ou Shu, at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, in Nashville that Regular exercise and drinking green tea may help combat depression among breast cancer patients. During the study, research team examined depression-related factors in 1,399 Chinese women who were 54 years old on average and treated for breast cancer in Shanghai, China between April 2002 and December 2006.

They noted that nearly 62pct of the women reported distinct benefits after some sort of exercise, reports China Daily. The likelihood of depression was 28 percent lower among women who exercised more than 2 hours a week and 42 percent lower among those who increased their post-diagnosis exercise time. Of 183 women who drank green tea, 36 percent had lower depression risk.