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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784670303321

Autore

Thayer Robert E

Titolo

Calm energy [[electronic resource] ] : how people regulate mood with food and exercise / / Robert E. Thayer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-19-988102-2

1-280-53381-1

0-19-803023-1

1-60256-693-3

Descrizione fisica

xi, 274 p. : ill

Disciplina

616.89

Soggetti

Exercise - Psychological aspects

Mental health - Nutritional aspects

Mood (Psychology)

Nutrition - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2003."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-254) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; ch. 1. Mood, self-regulation, and overeating -- ; ch. 2. Living in a stressful world : mood and overweight -- ; ch. 3. How are exercise and mood related? -- ; ch. 4. emotional eating -- ; ch. 5. Mood pleasure : food versus exercise -- ; ch. 6. Why do we have moods? -- ; ch. 7. Changes in energy and mood -- ; ch. 8. The biopsychology of energy and tension -- ; ch. 9. Managing your mood.

Sommario/riassunto

Obesity is reaching alarming proportions. In this insightful new approach to understanding why this is happening, acclaimed mood scientist Robert Thayer offers a new appreciation of the real cause--emotional eating. But this is not just emotional eating as previously known; rather it is a new scientific analysis of exactly how different moods affect eating. He shows how unprecedented stress in society and epidemic levels of depression have led people to food as a poor means of managing mood. In this original approach, Thayer describes how people's daily energy and tension variations occur, and how this knowledge helps overcome the urge to eat the wrong food and to achieve the goal of calm energy. Also, in this most up-to-date scientific



analysis of exercise and mood, he shows how physical activity is essential to psychological and physical health, yet why it is resisted. Thayer's work has been discussed in hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, and here he outlines in detail the cutting-edge theories and scientific research findings that have generated this extensive media attention.