Calm energy
Subtitle: how people regulate mood with food and exercise
By: Robert E. Thayer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Mental health -- Nutritional aspects; Mood (Psychology); Nutrition -- Psychological aspects; Exercise -- Psychological aspects
Description: Robert Thayer 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. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-254) and index