In this segment that we call Happy Facts, we bring in two folks who write for our magazine.

Let's introduce you to our panelists that we'll be joining us each and every week to share our happy facts.

First section editor, Chris Libby, from right here in Dallas, Texas.

Libby, welcome to the program.

Hello.

And our second panelist is from Nashville. Well, she's not from Nashville, Tennessee, but she's in Nashville, Tennessee. Paula Phelps. Paula, welcome to the show. Greetings. And what we're going to do is we're going to take our three favorite positive psychology facts that we found from the last week, share them with you, and discuss them. And in no particular order, let's get started with Paula's fact.

Paula, what's your fact this week?

Well, you're going to love this one.

Break out the broccoli because eating your vegetables makes you happy.

I think President George H.W. Bush would probably contend that that is not the case.

But what's the science behind that?

Well, there was a new study that came out of the University of New Hampshire and just was

published in the Journal of Happiness Studies.

And they actually looked at how fruit and vegetable intake would affect your psychological

well-being and found that people, they studied students

and whose students aren't always known for having the best diets, but they took into account

even other variables, like if they had a lot of sugar, had a lot of caffeine, had all these

other things.

Had a lot of sodium from their cup of noodles.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah, that ramen.

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