How To Be Happy: Eat Lots of Fruits and Vegetables

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How To Be Happy: Eat Lots of Fruits and Vegetables

The adage “you are what you eat” is truer than we may have thought. Public health researchers and economists at the U.K.’s University of Warwick have found that people who eat seven servings of vegetables and fruits a day are the happiest . Count them: How many servings have you eaten today? For their study (pdf ), the researchers looked at the eating habits of 80,000 people in Britain, using the results from the Welsh Health Survey of 2007-2010, the Scottish Health Survey of 2008 and the Health Survey of England in 2008. The researchers found that the more servings of fruits and vegetables that people ate a day, the more their mental well-being seemed to rise. The effect peaked at seven servings a day. In the U.K., most people eat far too few fruits and vegetables, the researchers found. One-quarter of the population was found to eat only one portion a day or none at all;...

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