| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18469 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18469 |
| Is Psychological Well-being Linked to the Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables? | |
| David G. Blanchflower; Andrew J. Oswald; Sarah Stewart-Brown | |
| 发表日期 | 2012-10-18 |
| 出版年 | 2012 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | 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. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18469 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576143 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David G. Blanchflower,Andrew J. Oswald,Sarah Stewart-Brown. Is Psychological Well-being Linked to the Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables?. 2012. |
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