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In the article entitled “The best reason for reading? Book lovers live longer, scientists say.” Amy Ellis Nutt, discusses a recent study by Yale University researches, published online in the journal social science and medicine concluded that “book readers experienced a twenty percent reduction in risk of mortality.
First, Ellis Nutt mentions the data was obtained from a Longitudinal Health and Retirement Study sponsored by the National Institute on Aging. The author stated that those who read more than three and a half hours weekly were twenty-three percent less likely to die during a twelve year period.
In addition she
points out that other recent researchers showed that reading novel appears to boost both brain connectivity and empathy.
Moreover, she emphasizes that Americans barely crack the top twenty-five when it comes to which read the most books. India, Thailand, and China are the highest. The United States of America came in twenty-third. This is very surprising.
Finally, Ellis Nutt concludes that eighty percent of young adults in America read a book last year, compared with sixty-eight percent of people that are the ages of fifty and sixty-four.
In the article entitled “The best reason for reading? Book lovers live longer, scientists say.” Amy Ellis Nutt, discusses a recent study by Yale University researches, published online in the journal social science and medicine concluded that “book readers experienced a twenty percent reduction in risk of mortality.
First, Ellis Nutt mentions the data was obtained from a Longitudinal Health and Retirement Study sponsored by the National Institute on Aging. The author stated that those who read more than three and a half hours weekly were twenty-three percent less likely to die during a twelve year period.
In addition she
points out that other recent researchers showed that reading novel appears to boost both brain connectivity and empathy.
Moreover, she emphasizes that Americans barely crack the top twenty-five when it comes to which read the most books. India, Thailand, and China are the highest. The United States of America came in twenty-third. This is very surprising.
Finally, Ellis Nutt concludes that eighty percent of young adults in America read a book last year, compared with sixty-eight percent of people that are the ages of fifty and sixty-four.