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Is Psychological Well-Being Linked to the Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables?
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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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Metadata
- 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.
- Venue
- Social Indicators Research
- Published
- 2012-10-11
- Volume
- 114
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 785-801
- ISSN
- 0303-8300 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-0921
- OpenAlex
- W1571758011
- Cited by
- 247
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 16.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- 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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