Eating Fruits and Vegetables Really Do Make You Feel Better
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iStock/Thinkstock(COVENTRY, England) — The magic bullet that might help to boost your mental well-being is located in the produce section of your local supermarket.
It sounds like a joke but Dr. Saverio Stranges and his team at the University of Warwick’s Medical School are dead serious about the medicinal effects of fruits and vegetable on one’s emotional state.
By examining data from the Health Survey for England, Stranges and other researchers learned that 33.5 percent of people reporting high mental well-being, that is, the ability to cope with life’s everyday stressors, ate five or more portions of fruits and vegetables daily.
However, when they looked up information about those in the survey who consumed less than one serving of fruits and vegetable each day, just 6.8 percent reported high mental well-being.
Meanwhile, unhealthy habits like drinking and conditions such as obesity were not associated with optimum emotional health.
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