Sex and fruit is not something you’d normally hear about in the same sentence, unless you had some kind of fruit fetish but we won’t go into that. Before your mind starts wondering what the hell we’re going on about, two separate studies on happiness benefits were conducted, and it turns out eating up to eight fruit and vegetables a day makes you happier, and so does having more casual sex. Winner winner.
Here’s the logistics behind the studies. Let’s start with the food, always the food. The study published in the American Journal of Public Health asked 12, 000 people to up their fruit and veg intake from almost none, to eight portions a day. Apparently it increased their life satisfaction in the same way you’d feel content about getting a new job after being unemployed for ages – so basically made them dead happy. Andrew Oswald, a professor at the University of Warwick who was involved in the study, said: 'eating fruit and vegetables apparently boosts our happiness far more quickly than it improves human health.'
Well I never, there we all were eating apples and broccoli to counter out the Oreo chocolate bar we devoured at the weekend (literally me last night), when actually it’s making us all happier too. Thanks broccoli. If that’s not enough of a reason to start eating healthier then I don’t really know what is.
Now we’re moving onto the sex part. A study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science followed 371 college students around for 12 weeks. Sounds a bit like Big Brother doesn’t it? Very ‘we’re watching you.’ Anyway, according to the results the researchers found that the people having more casual sex had higher self-esteem, and doing it yourself improves self-confidence. Lesson learnt here? Go have sex...and lots of it. But be safe, always.
So basically, have more sex while eating loads of fruit and vegetables and the sun will radiate out of your face with confidence. Maybe don’t combine the two unless you’re into that kind of thing.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.