YSAK: If you don't feel sad, eat an orange

Oranges are yummy and keep you from getting scurvy

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Have a shower orange.

Put orange in fridge to make it cool. Take orange to shower. Observe orange and realize you can eat it as messy and feral as you want. Go full lycanthrope on the orange. Shower off the juice. Go back to being an animal pretending to blend into a society, but now, you know better.

Advice from the little book of calm.

Hello poor person. Are you sad because the unprecedented rise of global wealth inequality and corruption has robbed you of any realistic hope for success and stability? Have you tried eating an orange?

Oh yeah emotions are just nutritional signals and gut-bacteria signals, I guess we're all just making up reasons to be ABNORMAL AND DIFFICULT.

THANKS HARVARD NERDS

I don't wanna be that guy, but I have to be fair and ask:

Why should I know this?

Does it work with (non-artifical) orange juice as well?

I always just thought it was the sugar in the OJ making me feel better. 🤷‍♂️

What if you're sad about the price of oranges?

I've had chronic pain and depression since I was a kid, I don't think oranges can fix me, but thanks for the advice, I'm sure it'll help someone that's better off.

Does this work with dried oranges?

I drink a tea that has orange in it so it would be awesome if it applies

And they say money doesn't buy happiness

I don't need the serotonin and dopamine inside my gut, I need it in my brain. ..Will shoving an orange up my nose work?

Sounds like something Big-Citrus would say.

The study is more correlation than causality. Even though they tried to be careful they did not (and can't) account for a plethora of confounding factors, which – especially with depression – is particularly problematic.

They provide a plausible explanation for a causal pathway, but did not prove it. This provides a testable hypothesis, which is why I would read this more like "more research needed", rather than definitive proof. I wouldn't go as far as to say "eat an orange a day, to keep depression away". Although it probably wouldn't hurt to eat some more fruit, given how bad the fruit content in most people's diet is anyway.

So this is, unfortunately, a rather sensationalist takeaway you've provided here, OP. But that's the curse of how we're doing capitalism. Even 'top research universities' like Harvard need to be sensationalist to attract some publicity and get their research funded.

If you're happy and you know it, eat an orange

If you're unhappy and you know it, eat an orange

You know what? Fuck it, eat an orange

Manny knew this ages ago

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