How Reading Can Have A Positive Effect On Your Health

Reading can have a positive effect on your health because it is good for you to learn new things. You also exercise your brain when you read. With the same benefits your brain gets from doing things like math or puzzles, we strengthen our mind like the muscle it is. It is also important for us to stay healthy by reading because we can learn a lot of the things we use to live healthier lifestyles and to make more beneficial choices from the information we acquire as we read. Besides, we wouldn't know all we do about our health and living different ways if it weren't for all the people that decided to record what they had learned. 

Walk into a doctors's office (a real doctor's office, not an examination room) and you will usually see a shelf with a lot of books containing important information that I'm willing to bet, no guarantee, they refer to quite often. And if they don't, then they are either a pretty freaking smart doctor and memorized everything they know, or they get all their knowledge from other doctors who are actually working. So many people have saved lives or made life healthier for themselves or someone else because of something they read in a book, whether they read it out of interest in that subject and with a purpose, or if it was an eyeful of useless crud that turned out to be suitable to a situation in their real lives. I even helped my family find more out about Celiac Disease for my sister, Emily. Now we know twice as much as we would have initially known when we found my sister had her allergy, and have found easier ways for her to both live and work with such a complicated diet.

Finally, a person's emotional health being just as important as the physical aspect is, reading can make you feel good. Not just because a story with a happy ending makes everyone smile, but because every little thing is an accomplishment and reading a book can make someone feel complete and fulfilled. Reading is good for your mind and emotion, which in turn can only help you physically. Make sure to read and run often, it pays off, and feels good.