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2. Keeps Your Brain Healthy
Just as exercise helps your body stay healthier longer, reading is an exercise that helps keep your brain fit. As they say, use it or lose it! Doing puzzles and reading as you age is proven to slow Dementia and Alzheimers . The next time you cozy up to read with a cup of tea, you can say you are getting your daily dose of (brain) exercise.
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4. Helps You Sleep Better
In this time of constant technological connection, our sleep is suffering. The blue light emitted from screens disrupts melatonin levels. By checking “one last email” you are waking your brain up when you should be relaxing. Then there is the stress of reading the news. As we now know, reading a ...
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5. Sets An Example For Kids
Is reading important to you? If it is, it likely will be important to your children. It is proven that “parents are children’s first and most enduring educators and have a huge influence on their development” .
Reading to your child is of course key, but so is showing them that reading matt...
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3. Reduce Stress
If you could reduce your stress levels in under ten minutes by doing something you enjoy, would you? A popular study done by the University of Sussex showed that “stress levels declined by 68 percent after participants read for just six minutes” . A good book transports you to another place where...
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1. Makes You More Empathetic
Reading is a way to escape your own life, and can take you to faraway lands, other times, and put you in other people’s shoes. By viewing the world from a point of view that is not your own, you become more empathetic.
In fact, “the currently predominant view is that literary fiction... can...
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