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(2018•成都高三诊断)Flaubert had it that “one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in an unending party”. It turns out that reading doesn’t only help us to tolerate existence, but actually lengthens it.
A recent study by Yale University researchers, published online in the journal Social Science & Medicine, concluded that “book readers experienced a 20 percent reduction in the risk of death over the 12 years of followup compared to nonreaders”.
The data was obtained from the study sponsored by the National Institute on Aging. The study looked at 3,635 subjects, all older than 50, whom the researchers divided into three groups:those who didn’t read books, those who read up to 3.5 hours a week and those who read more than 3.5 hours a week.
The findings were remarkable:on average, book readers survived almost two years longer than those who didn’t crack open a book. The more the subjects read, the longer they lived,
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