CLES Lectures: Our Science Made Simple - Why we overeat and how psychology can help
Our Science Made Simple is a new series of lectures that aims to provide you with a taste of the Colleges research, presented at a level that everyone can understand and enjoy. These are open lectures for CLES staff and post-docs.
| A College of Life and Environmental Sciences lecture | |
|---|---|
| Date | 16 April 2013 |
| Time | 12:30 to 13:30 |
| Place | Queens Building LT1 |
| Provider | College of Life and Environmental Sciences |
Event details
The second of these lectures will be presented by Dr Natalia Lawrence, Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Why we overeat and how psychology can help
Rates of obesity in the UK have quadrupled in the last 30 years, with most of us now overweight or obese. Despite widespread acknowledgement of the health risks, many of us struggle to resist calorie-dense foods; supermarkets even sold out of Easter eggs this year!
This lecture will examine the psychology and neurobiology of why we overeat, why some of us find it so much harder to resist food than others, and what researchers in psychology are doing to tackle the problem.
Location:
Queens Building LT1
