I’ve Been Saying it for YEARS…

Reading makes you live longer.

This is no great surprise to me, but apparently it was to many other people (like The Husband)… Fortunately, a new study, reported in The Washington Post the other day, confirmed 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 risk of mortality over the 12 years of follow-up compared to non-book readers.””

“Unfortunately, the Yale researchers said longevity was not increased by reading newspapers.”

And obviously newspapers don’t help – have you seen what’s in them lately?