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August 08, 2016 10:44 AM
That reading is good for your brain has been known for a long time, but a new study shows that picking up a book regularly could lengthen your life.
大家早已知道，閱讀益於大腦，但新的研究顯示，經常讀書可以延長你的壽命。
Writing in the journal Social Science and Medicine, researchers from Yale University said it doesn’t really matter what you read, as long as you read. The longer, the better.
耶魯大學的研究人員，發表在《社會科學雜誌和醫學》雜誌上表明，你讀什麽書沒有關係，隻要你閱讀，時間越長，越好。
Researchers reached their conclusions by looking at data from 3,635 health survey participants. They were broken down into three groups — those reading up to three-and-a-half hours per week, those who read more, and those who didn’t read at all.
研究人員從 3,635 健康調查參與者數據得出的結論。研究人員把參與者分成三組 — — 一組每周閱讀三半個小時，有些讀得更多，有些根本沒有閱讀。
After factoring in age, gender, education and economic status, they found that readers lived two years longer than non-readers.
根據年齡、 性別、 教育和經濟地位這些因素來看，結果發現，閱讀者比不閱讀的人要多活兩年。
Furthermore, they found that those who read up to 3.5 hours were 17 percent less likely to die over the next dozen years, with those reading longer than that were 23 percent less likely to die.
