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"People are likely to benefit from eating more than the recommended five daily portions of fruit and vegetables, experts have claimed. Researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand looked at the eating habits of 281 young adults, aged around 20 years, for 21 consecutive days. As well as keeping a food diary, participants rated how they were feeling each day using nine positive and nine negative adjectives. The researchers found that a high intake of fruit and vegetables tended to be associated with more positive mood. Dr Tamlin Conner, whose findings are now published in the British Journal of Health Psychology, revealed: &amp;amp;#39;On days when people ate more fruits and vegetables, they reported feeling calmer, happier and more energetic than they normally did.&amp;amp;#39; Further analysis confirmed that eating fruits and vegetables predicted an improvement in mood, rather than the other way around. The researchers calculated that young adults would need to eat seven or eight servings of fruit and vegetables per day in order to notice a change in their mood. According to co-author Bonnie White, this can be achieved by filling half of each meal plate with vegetables and by snacking on whole fruits such as apples. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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