Professor Adrian Taylor - Can being more physically active really lift your mood and help you control other health behaviours?

Professor Adrian Taylor, Sport & Health Sciences will be giving a lecture titled 'Can being more physically active really lift your mood and help you control other health behaviours?'

In a society of managed care and evidence-based practice global scientific research has grown exponentially over the past 30 years to answer the question; does physical activity improve mood and many other aspects of mental health, and if so how?

This talk will provide an easy to digest summary but then move on to some other questions about how being physical (in) activity may impact on some of the hedonic health behaviours many of us would like to change.

We gain comfort from snacking, alcohol and smoking but can physical activity change our interest and appetite for these behaviours?

This lecture will provide an overview of some of our laboratory work over the past 10 years, and how it has impacted on supporting health behaviour change, from one of the top 3% of deprived communities in the UK (in Devonport, Plymouth) to the USA’s Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking.

These are open lectures for CLES staff and post-docs so please feel free to come along.