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20 natural ways to BE HAPPIER

Eat a square of dark chocolate

It has compounds associated with mood-lifting chemicals in our brains, including the natural antidepressant phenylethylamine and tryptophan, which we need to produce the happiness neurotransmitter serotonin. Just don’t overindulge or it will have the opposite effect and you’ll have a mood-lowering sugar crash. It’s the cocoa that has the feel-good goodies so the darker the better – try 70% solids or above.

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A Dutch study found that adults reported

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