Sex and DNA : It’s official: More fruit, veg and casual sex can make you happier

from metro.co.uk

Miranda Larbi for Metro.co.ukMonday 18 Jul 2016 11:26 am

Having more fruit, veg and casual sex can make you happier — (Picture: Rex/Metro)

Listen up – here’s some excellent Monday morning news.

We know that having a stack of fruit and veg every day keeps us healthier, but now it turns out that it can also make us happier. As does having more casual sex.

Two separate studies into happiness have concluded that happiness can be derived from both activities – meaning no more food or sex quandaries.

The first study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, analysed the food diaries of over 12,000 Australians over a six year period to assess their life satisfaction. They were asked to increase their fruit and veg intake from almost nothing, to eight portions a day. And apparently it made them all really bloody happy.

Why?

Apparently, the increase in life satisfaction, happiness and well-being was akin to the psychological improvement felt when you finally land a job after a spell of unemployment.

The study concluded that the ‘well-being improvements from increased consumption of fruit and vegetables are closer to immediate’, compared to the notion of over all well-eating – the benefits of which are experienced much later in life (i.e. when you’re older and haven’t succumbed to diabetes, for example).

Now to the sex part.

The other study followed 371 college students around for 12 weeks to assess their lifestyles, and researchers concluded that casual sex can improve self-confidence. They also found that those who had more casual sex had higher self-esteem.

‘Sociosexually unrestricted students typically reported higher well-being after having casual sex compared to not having casual sex,’ the report stated – and that was for both sexes.

So there we have it – more veg, fruit, sex = happier life.

Do not combine unless absolutely sure about what you’re doing.