Vegetables and fruits are frequent visitors in people's daily life. They are nutritious and delicious, and play their respective roles in health care and diet therapy. Recently, a new study by Aston University in England shows that people's mood will improve with the increase of fruit and vegetable intake. Eating more fruits and vegetables at ordinary times can improve mental health. Among them, eating more vegetables makes people feel happy, and eating more fruits helps to relieve depression.
Usually they should eat more fruits and vegetables. Researchers say they eat one more fruit or vegetable every day. It is equivalent to walking 7-8 days more every month. This is good for mental health. This healthy diet can be a bowl of lettuce (fist-sized), half a cup of cooked vegetables or broken fruit, or a portion of fruit. It must be emphasized that this discovery itself cannot prove the causal relationship between the intake of fruits and vegetables and the improvement of mental health. Researchers can't rule out the so-called "substitution effect" because people eat a certain amount of food every day. Eating more fruits and vegetables also means eating less unhealthy food.
Researchers say that people can predict whether they will be depressed or anxious after two years by eating fruits and vegetables. Large-scale experiments are still needed to provide stronger evidence that there is a causal relationship between the intake of fruits and vegetables and mental health. Because of the high cost of randomized controlled trials, it is feasible to pay attention to the biological mechanism between common chemicals in fruits and vegetables and human physiological changes. For example, vitamin C and vitamin E have been shown to reduce inflammation associated with depression.
However, the person in charge of the study does not recommend replacing medication with fruits and vegetables, but it has been proved that eating more fruits and vegetables in daily diet can improve mental health.