Study: Breakfast, Sleep, Exercise Boost Stress Resilience — SkimNews
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- Binghamton University researchers studied approximately 400 college students and found that eating breakfast regularly, exercising, sleeping well, and taking fish oil were each associated with greater psychological flexibility.
- Psychological flexibility — the ability to adapt behavior to shifting situations — was the specific trait researchers tied to those daily habits as a marker of better stress handling.
Why it matters: The findings suggest that for the ~400 students studied, four low-effort daily behaviors — a regular breakfast, adequate sleep, and fish oil — correlated with measurable gains in psychological flexibility, pointing to accessible levers for managing stress.
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