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A major new meta-study out of Cambridge this week affirms what most people surely already knew intuitively: Reading is good for your health.
And, by "health," they don't mean just mental health, or emotional health or physical health. They mean "all of the above." Mentally, among other things, reading helps combat depression. Emotionally, reading causes people to develop empathy. Physically, reading combats dementia and Alzheimer's diseases, with some studies suggesting up to a 33% reduction in risk for regular readers.
It does not appear to matter all that much what people read, as long as they read regularly and give the task their full attention. Romance novels, comic books, histories, great literature, etc. all appear to have the same salubrious effects. They do not seem to have tested readers of political blogs; presumably the enormous benefits therein are so well-known and so well-established that it was not necessary to beat a dead horse.
That's a pretty brief freudenfreude, but it's a story we thought worth a mention. Have a good (rest of your) weekend, all! (Z)