Overview: A new study reports that eating fruits and vegetables and exercising can boost your well-being. Increased happiness was associated with eating more fruits and vegetables in women and exercising more in men.
sauce: Kent University
A new study led by the Universities of Kent and Reading found that eating fruits and vegetables and exercising boosts well-being.
The link between lifestyle and well-being has been previously documented and has often been used in public health campaigns to encourage healthier eating and exercise. Happiness Research Journal It also shows that there is a positive causal relationship from lifestyle to life satisfaction.
This study is the first to elucidate causal links between how well-being, fruit and vegetable consumption, and exercise are related, rather than generalizing correlations.
Researchers Adelina Gschwandtner, Ph.D. (Kent’s School of Economics), Sarah Jewell, Ph.D., and Professor Uma Kambhampati (both from the University of Reading Department of Economics) used an instrumental variable approach to exclude the effects of well-being on lifestyle. did.
It has been shown that it is the consumption of fruits and vegetables and exercise that makes people happy, not the other way around.
Findings indicate that an individual’s ability to delay gratification and apply self-control plays a major role in influencing lifestyle decisions, which has a positive impact on well-being. Studies also show that women are exercising more and eating more fruits and vegetables.
These findings have implications for public health policy, as it is well known that lifestyle diseases are a leading cause of ill health and mortality worldwide, and the UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in Europe. can have significant implications.
Dr. Gschwandtner said: If a better lifestyle makes us not only healthier, but happier, it’s clearly a win-win situation. “
Professor Kanbanpathi said: Proving that eating more fruits and vegetables and exercising increases well-being and has health benefits is a big step forward. there is. “
About this Diet, Exercise and Happiness Research News
author: Olivia Miller
sauce: University of Kent
contact: Olivia Miller – University of Kent
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Original research: open access.
“Lifestyle and Life Satisfaction: The Role of Delayed Satisfaction” by Adelina Guschwantner et al. Happiness Research Journal
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Lifestyle and Life Satisfaction: The Role of Delayed Satisfaction
This paper examines the impact of two lifestyle measures, fruit and vegetable consumption and exercise, on individual well-being.
Since lifestyles are likely to be endogenous, we correct this by using the two dimensions of delayed gratification as a means.
The ability to delay gratification allows individuals to give more weight to investment factors in their lifestyle decisions than just emotional ones.
Our analysis is based on UK Understanding Society Data of 40,000 UK households.
Two delayed gratification tools were found to be positive and important in influencing lifestyle. In Stage 2, we found that fruit and vegetable consumption and sports activity increased life satisfaction, but the effects were different for men and women.
These results are robust across income quartiles, regions, gender, education and age groups.
