Calm Energy How People Regulate Mood with Food and Exercise

Name: Calm Energy How People Regulate Mood with Food and Exercise
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ISBN: 9780195163391

ISBN-10: 0195163397

ISBN-13: 9780195163391

Edition: 2003

Authors: Robert E. Thayer

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You are what you eat, but why are you eating so much? Your moods! Why can't you stay with a reasonable exercise program, and why is obesity at epidemic proportions in our society today? Negative moods hold the explanations. Feeling down? Wish you had more energy and less stress? If this describes you some or most of the time, you are probably among the millions today who respond to increasing stress and low moods with food - a candy bar, or perhaps a cup of coffee and a sweet. Such "emotional eating" may temporarily boost your spirits, but this effect is a short-lived quick fix that perpetuates chronic overeating and obesity. Moreover, the same negative moods that have grown to substantial…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/15/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface



Mood, Self-Regulation, and Overeating



Living in a Stressful World: Mood and Overweight



How Are Exercise and Mood Related?



Emotional Eating



Mood Pleasure: Food versus Exercise



Why Do We Have Moods?



Changes in Energy--and Mood



The Biopsychology of Energy and Tension



Managing Your Mood



Energy and Tensions Ratings


Notes


References


Index


About the Author