by Kelsey Tamborrino July 3rd, 2013, 04:00 pm EDT
Book lovers have bigger brains.Cracking, open the book to the beach. Now read your memory strengthens later in life, says a new study by Rush University.
The researchers studied the brains of recently deceased seniors and found that people, the mentally stimulating activities (how books read and write) during their lifetime, indeed had 32 percent of slower memory decline as seniors, are not.
Cognitive health later in life not only depends on your genes, but how strong is your brain when you reach this point - and if you expand, says study author Robert Wilson, Ph.d. your mind must remain sharp in order for it be constantly challenged he says. This means that a book per summer will not cut.
30 Minutes a day reading a few chapters of the novel are currently on, or by a few leaves in your favorite Mag article to override. A study from the Mayo Clinic found that people who frequently, that magazines in middle age were about 40 percent less likely to read, that mild cognitive impairment than those who do not to develop.
Or simply start your iPad and open LongReads, a free site, the daily links to the most interesting stories, interviews, and historical documents (usually anything over 1,500 words) on the Internet has.
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