It is very important for those who work indoors to get out and exercise in their gym clothing during the winter months, a psychology expert has suggested.

Dr Lance Workman, senior lecturer in psychology at Bath Spa University, explained that serotonin levels decrease when daylight hours shorten, causing people's moods to dip.

He went on to say that exercise in an outdoor environment, when done for 30 minutes a day on most days of the week, can make a "huge difference" to people with low moods in the winter.

"Environments have a big impact on mood and plants are a big help. There's an evolutionary theory that we evolved around plants and therefore we find green, and plants in particular, good for lifting mood," Dr Workman went on to say.

His comments follow the publication of research by Kellogg's, which revealed that more than three million workers do not see daylight during their usual working schedule after the clocks go back.

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