One study shows that reading books prolongs life – Le Figaro

It is now proven: reading acts as a water of youth. A recent study by Yale University, read more 3h30 per week would help to extend the life expectancy of over 20% year-over-year.

This is good scientific reason to stay a little longer each day in bed According to US researchers from the prestigious Yale University, who studied the passion of over three thousand bibliophiles, read a few minutes a day would be very good for your health and even extremely salutary. One chapter a day, could certainly save your life or at least lengthen …

So how does it work? She is diving into the pages of Harry Potter playing a Emma Bovary Flaubert or the fact of people flip through a magazine? Not really. The study, reported by the New York Times, is very clear. To establish his numbers, it turned to 3635 volunteers aged 50 and studied over a period bibliophagie their habits.

Three groups have been established. Those who do not read (at least no more than the vital need), who read up to three hours a week, and finally, those who read more than 3:30 each week. In all likelihood, those who have been led to practice reading longer than their peers who never open book (the glacier paper magazines thus do not count really) achieved better figures.

not only the researchers found at the end of their study that the followers of rivers books and adventure novels were women, often highly educated and affluent, but they managed to establish a causal link between very concrete effect readers’ habits and their health. Reading and life expectancy are well related effect.

So, opposite to those of the first group who never open book, those who read at least half past three every week have 17% chance at least, to die in the next 12 years. As for the third group of bibliophiles, life expectancy increased by some 23% year-over-year. So they earn an average of two years of life on people who do not read.

“This advantage also about health, education, cognitive abilities and many other variants,” says Becca R. Levy, professor of epidemiology at Yale University. Enough to want to keep the fingers of feet fanned all this summer with a good book in hand …

To hell so critical of the kings of the treadmill and walking. Reading is the sport of tomorrow.