{"id":5375,"date":"2012-09-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.195.175\/index.php\/2012\/09\/18\/studies-show-reading-is-good-for-your-health\/"},"modified":"2012-09-18T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T04:00:00","slug":"studies-show-reading-is-good-for-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodworldnews.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/18\/studies-show-reading-is-good-for-your-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Studies show reading is good for your health"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5374\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.195.175\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/f8a458e18503c86603dc02339a944feb.jpg\" alt=\"Image Credit: 3rdgradehudson.blogspot.com\" class=\"caption\" title=\"The United States is the largest strawberry grower in the world, with most being grown in California.\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" \/>\n<p>Good News from Sunstone Online:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 2px 25px 16px; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Of course, we all know in theory that reading is good for us. Now, however, researchers are proving just how good it is and how much benefit may be derived for those bookworms out there. Neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield explains that reading helps to lengthen attention spans and to improve a child\u2019s ability to think clearly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 2px 25px 16px; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">As she explains,<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin: 2px 25px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-style: italic; background-image: url('http:\/\/www.sunstoneonline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/coaster\/images\/blockquote_bg.gif'); background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 38px 25px 16px; border: 0px;\">\u201cStories have a beginning, a middle and an end \u2013 a structure that\u00a0encourages our brains to think in sequence, to link cause, effect and significance. It is essential to learn this skill as a small child, while the brain has more plasticity, which is why it\u2019s so important for parents to read to their children. The more we do it, the better we get at it.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 2px 25px 16px; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">As<a style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #f15713; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dpag.ox.ac.uk\/academic_staff\/john_stein\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>John Stein<\/a>, emeritus professor of neuroscience at Magdalen College, Oxford, explains, \u201cReading exercises the whole brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 2px 25px 16px; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">A study in 2009 found that reading actually helps us to create new neural pathways, as our brains process the experiences that we read about. This does not occur from watching television, playing computer games or engaging in other passive activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 2px 25px 16px; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Another fascinating study from the University of Sussex in 2009 found that a mere six minutes of reading can reduce stress levels by more than two-thirds. They found that this amount of reading was more beneficial than listening to music or going for a walk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 2px 25px 16px; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Finally, one more study, from the University of California, Berkeley, that was published in the Archives of Neurology, showed that reading from a young age can actually help in the prevention of Alzheimer\u2019s. It inhibits the formation of amyloid (protein) plaques which are found in the brains of people with Alzheimer\u2019s. The scientists who conducted this study found that people who had been doing brain-stimulating activities like reading, playing chess, writing letters and more since the age of six showed very low levels of amyloid plaques as they aged. For those who hadn\u2019t engaged in such activities, the plaque levels were heightened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 2px 25px 16px; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt20\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; quotes: \u201c, \u201d; color: #695b4e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\n<div class=\"sub_buzz_content\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\">\n<p>Fisherman, James.\u00a0 &#8220;Reading, A Dose of Medicine for the Mind and Body&#8221;. 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