"Reading half an hour a day adds two years to your life. A study from Yale University in the US confirmed that people who read a lot live longer. Researchers at the University followed 3,635 people aged at least 50 for 12 years. The results showed that people who read 3.5 hours a week (i.e., half an hour a day) lived nearly two years longer on average than those who never read. People who read more than 3.5 hours a week had a 23 percent lower risk of early death."
I search for some kind of, found this to be reported in 2016, the researchers explained that reading can reduce sedentary cause mortality rate of 20%, can effectively improve the quality of life for more than 50 years old, this is because compared with reading newspapers, reading need more cognitive function, and can improve the function of reading is a kind of immersion activities, help maintain cognitive performance. Reading involves two main cognitive processes: deep reading and emotional connection. Deep reading is a slow process in which the reader strives to understand the book in its own context as well as the context of the outside world. The emotional connection is that the reader sympathizes with the characters in the book, which improves the perception and emotional intelligence of others. Reading can also reduce stress.
How significant is it to reach this conclusion after 12 years of research? Would anyone start reading in order to live two more years? Reading for half an hour a day, about seven days a year, takes more than a year for 60 years. In addition to reading, I probably have to buy, borrow and manage books. Working out and doing math can add years to your life, too.
The study also said that the most avid readers were women with higher incomes and college education. Two years of extra life was defined as two years of extra life for regular readers compared to non-readers, rather than two years of extra life for the people themselves. Reading can let people longevity is not compared, a person only live a lifetime, can not let him read in this life, that life do not read, and then compare life expectancy.
Reading books to see other worlds, how other people live, is the equivalent of living many lifetimes. You'll probably never go to the North Pole or even space, so you can read to understand what it's like to be there.
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In His book Slow Reading in fast Times, American scholar David Meekix said: "Real reading aims to enhance readers' creativity and never loses its power. It won't be as time-sensitive as email, tweets and instant messages. Such reading requires an investment of time in order to give you something permanent in return: you understand a book well enough to want to come back to it again and again, and the more time you invest, the more you get out of it."
In the Internet age, where our attention spans are constantly interrupted, reading requires undivided attention. "As children grow, the ability to focus on a toy (or video, or book) for long periods of time continues to grow, as does the desire for repetitive experiences: the desire to hear the same story again, or to hear the same song over and over again. One of the characteristics of the adult is his desire to immerse himself in a single purpose. Our ability to pay sustained attention to something has also given rise to quite a few cultural milestones: mathematicians, chemists, chefs, computer programmers, writers and artists would not have been born without this silent, all-consuming focus."
Writers are, by and large, diligent readers. Sontag told the Paris Review that she started reading real books - biographies, travel books and so on - around the age of six. Then she fell in love with POE, Shakespeare, Dickens, the Bronte sisters, Victor Hugo, Schopenhauer and Pater. When she was about nine years old, she tried her hand at printing, making a four-page monthly newspaper, printing about twenty copies and selling them to her neighbors for five cents each.
Sontag's house was full of books and paper, about fifteen thousand of them. She spent her life reading books on art and architecture, theater and dance, philosophy and psychiatry, the history of medicine, religion, photography and opera. Susan Sontag owns a variety of Books on European literature -- French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, etc. -- as well as hundreds of books on Japanese literature and on Japan, sorted by language and roughly chronologically.
When King was very young, his father abandoned the family and his mother moved from place to place before settling back in Maine, this time in the small inland town of Durham. He started writing novels when he was about six or seven, drawing pictures from comic books and making up his own stories. The town doesn't have a library, but once a week the state does have a large green van that comes in with a library van from which residents can borrow three books. "I read a lot of books, all kinds," he said. I read The Call of the Wild and The Sea Wolf one week, then Warm and Cold the next, and the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit the next. I read everything I can think of, everything I can get my hands on. When I read The Sea Wolf, I didn't understand that it was Jack London's interpretation and criticism of Nietzsche; When I read Matteg, I didn't know it was naturalism."
King, 74, also co-authored a new book, "Gwendi's Last Mission," which was published in February.
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