Health Benefits of Reading Book: Why You Should Read Every Day

5. It helps treat stroke

Reading, according to experts, makes the brain able to withstand any harm -- even strokes-because it "obliges" readers to use alternative synapses, in other words, connections amongst brain neurons.

6. Prevent obesity

Experts from Duke's children's Hospital found that reading literary books can help obese kids slim down. "Scientists gave one novel titled "Lake Rescue" (saving the Lake) to obese girls aged 9-13 years old, who had already followed a slimming program, so as to read it. 

The novel was chosen carefully by pediatricians specifically for this purpose. The book's heroine was an obese girl with a very strong personality. After reading the book, the girls adopted a healthy lifestyle and managed to lose weight and reduce body mass index (BMI) after 6 months". This is the first prospective interventional study that found literature can have a positive impact on healthy lifestyle changes in young girls.

7. Memory Improvement

When you read a book, you have to remember an assortment of characters, their backgrounds, ambitions, history, and nuances, as well as the various arcs and sub-plots that weave their way through every story. That's a fair bit to remember, but brains are marvellous things and can remember these things with relative ease. Amazingly enough, every new memory you create forges new synapses (brain pathways)and strengthens existing ones, which assists in short-term memory recall as well as stabilizing moods.

Reading has many physical and mental benefits. If you want to make a habit out of reading, you are not too late to get started. Whenever you start reading a book, make things easy. Always find the easies topics first. And start reading from there.