What Are You Reading?

The word for the week is "Read”

Reading something interesting each week for at least 15 minutes keeps you curious, which fuels innovation and creativity. The health benefits are huge. Studies have shown that staying mentally stimulated can slow the progress or possibly even prevent Alzheimer’s and Dementia, since keeping your brain active and engaged prevents it from losing power.

We often overlook the advantages of exercising our brain to keep it functioning at a high level. It’s important to keep it strong and healthy.

As we get older, we watch a great deal more television. And with our DVR’s, On Demand, Netflix and other services, we can binge watch for hours. In addition to leading to more aggressive behavior, watching too much can reduce your level of intelligence, and make it difficult to concentrate. In a recent study, it was found that if adults watched less than 2 hours a day and sat less than 3 hours a day, life expectancy in the US would increase by 2 years.

Researchers suggest to keep the brain stimulated, consider playing games, such as chess and doing puzzles.

Let’s not forget that another benefit of reading is that you’ll learn something while building your vocabulary.

What do you do the keep your brain stimulated?

I read daily to stimulate my brain, keep me curious and creative.

#brainpower #innovation #readingworks

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