Reading at least 30 minutes a day would be the secret of a long life, according to US researchers.
Researchers at Yale University in the United States have revealed that people who read books over half an hour a day have, on average, an increased life expectancy of two years, reports the site "Science and Future" .
The researchers explain this by the changes in behavior, generated by reading, in particular, "a more critical mind and a more pronounced empathy, which are factors of survival", the site still reports.
This finding was revealed by a follow-up study of 3,635 individuals aged fifty years or older who were found to be representative of American society over a 12-year period.
Thus, scientists differentiated readers from magazines and novels and divided them into three groups: those who never read, those who read less than half an hour per day, and those who read more than three and a half hours per week, Same source.
Reviewing those still alive at the end of the study, scientists found that those who read novels more than 3:30 each week had a mortality rate 23 percent lower than that of less experienced readers. Probably in part thanks to improved cognitive abilities, says the site.
Making crosswords or sudoku would not be enough. The development of empathy is a very important dimension, according to the authors, finally, "Science and Future".
"The average reading time is 3.92 hours for novels and 6.10 hours for magazines," the researchers wrote in the study, insisting that the two practices are not correlated. Reading magazines was also associated with a better survival factor, but much less important than reading novels.
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