Reading May Extend Lifespan

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，阅读益于大脑，但新的研究显示，经常读书可以延长你的寿命。

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.

耶鲁大学的研究人员，发表在《社会科学杂志和医学》杂志上表明，你读什么书没有关系，只要你阅读，时间越长，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.

研究人员从 3,635 健康调查参与者数据得出的结论。研究人员把参与者分成三组 — — 一组每周阅读三半个小时，有些读得更多，有些根本没有阅读。

After factoring in age, gender, education and economic status, they found that readers lived two years longer than non-readers.

根据年龄、 性别、 教育和经济地位这些因素来看，结果发现，阅读者比不阅读的人要多活两年。

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.