Come dine with me – research suggests sharing meals linked to happiness

Yahoo News

People who share meals with others have higher levels of life satisfaction than those who dine alone, according to research.

In the UK, people on average dine with others for seven of their meals each week – four dinners and three lunches, data suggested.

Researchers said the data on meal sharing had been “collected and analysed at a global scale” and remarked that their findings were surprising in the “strength of the connection of meal sharing with positive life evaluations and emotions”.

The research was carried out as part of the The World Happiness Report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford.