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In the article entitled “The best reason for reading? Book lovers live longer, scientists say.” Amy Ellis Nutt, discusses a recent study by Yale University researches, published online in the journal social science and medicine concluded that “book readers experienced a twenty percent reduction in risk of mortality.

First, Ellis Nutt mentions the data was obtained from a Longitudinal Health and Retirement Study sponsored by the National Institute on Aging. The author stated that those who read more than three and a half hours weekly were twenty-three percent less likely to die during a twelve year period.

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