

If you’re reading this, it’s safe to assume you don’t need to be sold on the merits of the written word. Odder still, book readers who reported more than three hours of reading each week were 23 per cent less likely to die between 20 than their peers who read only newspapers or magazines. But in 2016, when researchers at the Yale School of Public Health dug into 12 years of HRS data about the reading habits and health of more than 3,600 men and women over the age of 50, a hopeful pattern emerged: People who read books-fiction or non-fiction, poetry or prose-for as little as 30 minutes a day over several years were living an average of two years longer than people who didn’t read anything at all. A minor item on a massive survey of more than 20,000 retirees, it had long gone ignored in the analysis of elder brain health. This question has arrived in thousands of homes in the US every other year since 1992 as part of the University of Michigan’s Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Here’s a simple question-answer it honestly, because your response could boost the amount of pleasure in your daily life, delay dementia and even help you live longer: How many hours did you spend reading books last week? Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Why It Pays To Increase Your Word Power Reader's Digest India | October 2017

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