Why Eating Alone is so Bad for You (An International Day of Happiness Special).

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It's the International Day of Happiness! It's a chance to talk about happiness and what we can all do to be happier. March 20th also sees the release of the World Happiness Report. A big finding of 2025's report is that more of us are dining alone - and that's bad news.

The report's editor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve talks us through the stark figures showing that shared meals are in decline - while Dr Anne Fishel of The Family Dinner Project gives us her tips on how to dine better with friends, families and colleagues.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	Happy International Day of Happiness.
0:15.0	The world has been marking March 20th as a day dedicated to happiness for over a decade,
0:20.0	part of a worldwide push
0:21.7	to get governments to take happiness more seriously and to enact policies that improve our well-being.
0:27.1	International Day of Happiness also marks the release of the World Happiness Report,
0:31.1	and the Happiness Lab has been given early access to all the new research this report contains,
0:35.7	and over the next two episodes, we've got lots of highlights,
0:38.5	including things you can do right now to improve your life.
0:41.6	The most famous headline-grabbing part of each year's World Happiness Report
0:44.8	are the country rankings.
0:46.3	People around the world are asked, on a scale of 1 to 10,
0:49.0	how satisfied are you with your life?
0:50.9	The crown for the happiest people usually goes to a country somewhere in Scandinavia.
0:55.4	And this year the happiest country is... Finland!
0:58.0	Finland! Again!
0:59.4	But closely followed by Denmark and Iceland and Sweden and the Netherlands, I think.
1:04.7	This is Jan Emanuel Denev, Professor of Economics and Behavioral Science at the University of Oxford,
1:10.5	an editor of the World Happiness Report.
1:12.8	During the years he studied these country data, he's noticed some changes.
1:16.4	The rankings used to be dominated by the big, rich nations, but all that's changing.
1:20.9	Mexico and Costa Rica entered the top 10, which is hugely exciting and kudos to them.
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