Book up for a longer life: readers die later, study finds

Bookworms, Rejoice: You May Live Longer

"Flaubert had it that “the one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy”. It turns out that reading doesn’t only help us to tolerate existence, but actually prolongs it."

Book up for a longer life: readers die later, study finds

Survey of more than 3,500 people finds that reading books – markedly more than periodicals – appears to deliver a noticeable ‘survival advantage’

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