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Is Psychological Well-Being Linked to the Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables?

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Blanchflower, David G., Oswald, Andrew J., Stewart-Brown, Sarah·2013·Social Indicators Research
DOI 10.1007/s11205-012-0173-y
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Humans run on a fuel called food.Yet economists and other social scientists rarely study what people eat.We provide simple evidence consistent with the existence of a link between the consumption of fruit and vegetables and high well-being.In cross-sectional data, happiness and mental health rise in an approximately dose-response way with the number of daily portions of fruit and vegetables.The pattern is remarkably robust to adjustment for a large number of other demographic, social and economic variables.Well-being peaks at approximately 7 portions per day.We document this relationship in three data sets, covering approximately 80,000 randomly selected British individuals, and for seven measures of well-being (life satisfaction, WEMWBS mental well-being, GHQ mental disorders, self-reported health, happiness, nervousness, and feeling low).Reverse causality and problems of confounding remain possible.We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of our analysis, how government policy-makers might wish to react to it, and what kinds of further research --especially randomized trials --would be valuable.

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Authors
Blanchflower, D. G., Oswald, A. J., & Stewart-Brown, S.
Affiliations
  • Dartmouth College (US)
  • IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (DE)
  • University of Warwick (GB)
Corresponding author
Oswald, Andrew J.
ORCID
Venue
Social Indicators Research
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2012-10-11
Volume
114
Issue
3
Pages
785-801
ISSN
  • 0303-8300 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-0921
DOI
10.1007/s11205-012-0173-y
OpenAlex
W1571758011
Cited by
247
References
27
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 33 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 23 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 1
FWCI
16.25
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Social Indicators Research (publishedVersion)
  • National Bureau of Economic Research (publishedVersion)
  • Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick) (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • National Bureau of Economic Research (submittedVersion)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
  • Stirling Online Research Repository (University of Stirling) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
  • AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)
Funders
Economic and Social Research Council (ES/H021248/1)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutritional Studies and Diet
Keywords
psychological well-being, fruit and vegetable intake, mental health, life satisfaction, self-reported health, anxiety, dietary intake

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