We obsess over diets, fasting, and weight-loss drugs in the name of health. But we rarely ask a more important question: what kind of eating actually makes us happier?
In this episode of Office Hours, I explore what the science say about the relationship between food and well-being. Eating gives us pleasure, but meals bring deeper enjoyment when they also combine people and memories. I explore what that means in practice along with seven other practical rules for “happy eating.”
In the end, happiness at the table depends less on the food than the company. As my Spanish wife likes to say: the point of eating is not the food—it’s the love.
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Referenced:
• The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness
• The Pursuit of Happiness with Arthur Brooks
• The pleasure of food: underlying brain mechanisms of eating and other pleasures
• Health, Happiness and Eating Together: What Can a Large Thai Cohort Study Tell Us?
• Happy eating: the underestimated role of overeating in a positive mood
• Eating breakfast, fruit and vegetable intake and their relation with happiness in college students
• Will Healthy Eating Make You Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings Archive
• Moderate doses of alcohol increase social bonding in groups
• Is Psychological well-being linked to the consumption of fruits and vegetables?
• Conceptualizations of happiness and vegetarianism
• Does intermittent fasting impact mental disorders? A systematic review with meta-analysis
• The Minnesota starvation experimen (the psychology of hunger)
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