8 Health Benefits of Reading

Many health advantages of reading can be realized at any age. Reading a book can relax you, be healthier for you, and be gentler on the eyes than gazing at a screen. Eight health advantages of reading are listed below. A good book might benefit you over time.

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Eight Health Advantages of Reading

1. Builds empathy: Reading literary fiction can help you become more aware of how those around you are feeling and thinking, which improves your emotional intelligence and empathy.
   
2. Encourages you to mimic those behaviors in your own life by reading about characters pursuing goals.
   
3. Enhances memory: As you follow several characters, each with their own background, history, personality, and goals, along with a story's timeline, main plot, and side plots, your brain's short-term memory and recall abilities are increased.
   
4. Prevents dementia: Regular brain exercises, such as reading, are linked to a 32% decrease in mental decline, and another study indicated that seniors who read books had a 2.5-fold lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
   
5. Increases in brain activity: The morning after reading 30 pages of a book the night before, an MRI of the brain revealed increased activity in the left temporal lobe (related to language and intellect).
   
6. reduces stress—studies show that reading can reduce stress by 68%.
   
7. Enhances sleep—reading before bed on a regular basis tells your brain to wind down and prepare for sleep, which helps you have a more regular sleep routine.
   
8. When patients with depression read aloud or heard stories read aloud, they reported feeling better, having a better perspective, higher self-esteem and confidence, and improved communication skills.
   

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