Yeah well a study confirmed that reading books increases your life expectancy. (The study was done on reading in general this probably even counts.)

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Study link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953616303689 
# How did they conduct the study?

They split people into three groups no reading, less than 3.5 hours a week and more than 3.5 hours a week. They had just over 3000 people and did not discriminate race or gender in any way.


# What did they find?
They found that the less than 3.5 hours a week were 17% less likely to die and 3.5 hours 23% less likely to die than those who do not read at all.
They are planning to do studies on the different forms of reading and how that affects different races and genders.


# Why does this happen?

"This effect is likely because books engage the reader's mind more – providing more cognitive benefit, and therefore increasing the lifespan," one of the researchers, Avni Bavishi, told Alison Flood at The Guardian.
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Remember in old age your brain is one of the few things you have left, use it well.




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