Could More Fruits, Vegetables Make You Happier?

Eating up to eight servings of fruit and vegetables a day could make you feel happier, new research suggests.

Experts have long recommended a diet with lots of fruits and vegetables to help guard against cancer and heart disease. But, researchers say, it’s hard to persuade people to eat more fruits and vegetables today when the benefits aren’t seen for years or even decades. But that's not true in all cases. When you stop eating artificial foods and start eating only whole foods, and stop buying canned or bottled drinks and start drinks more water, tea or coffee the changes in your mood and changes in your health will start to slowly change. 

However, improvements to your mood may be seen within 2 years, they say.

Scientists from the universities of Warwick and Queensland in the U.K. and Australia looked at food diaries kept by 12,385 Australian adults. The people, who were chosen at random from a large Australian survey, had also had their psychological well-being measured.

They found that about 85% of participants had fewer than three daily servings of fruit, while 60% ate fewer than three daily servings of vegetables. Only a very small percentage of people (1.83%) ate, on average, more than five servings of fruit. Only 7.75% ate more than five servings of vegetables.

The researchers conclude that people who go from eating almost no fruit and veggies to eight servings every day would have an increase in life satisfaction equivalent to moving from unemployment to employment. That improvement would be seen within 24 months, they claim.

I have seen this type of improvement even faster. Take someone on a junk food diet and put them on a whole food diet, drinking only tea, coffee and lots of water and you can see a mood change in a few weeks. You can see improvement in their health in a couple of months and loss of body fat will start soon after that. 

I am a big believer in the old saying "you are what you eat".

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