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CALM ENERGY
How People Regulate Mood with Food and Exercise
Robert E. Thayer
Oxford University Press, 2001
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Readers of this book will understand the active role moods play in daily lives, including how people experience energy and tension, the relation of poor eating habits and the avoidance of exercise to moods, and how awareness of bodily signals can help manage overeating and increase exercise.
Part of the causes of obesity and lack of exercise can be traced to increases in stress, depression, and anxiety. People are working more and sleeping less, and the use of antidepressants and anxiolytics is growing rapidly. Patients are driven to seek energy from the food they eat. In a negative mood, exercise does not seem a desirable alternative. Paradoxically, exercise has powerful antidepressant effects.
Robert Thayer, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of THE BIOPSYCHOLOGY OF MOOD AND AROUSAL and THE ORIGIN OF EVERYDAY MOODS and many research papers.
6 CE credits; 179 pages
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