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Reading Is Good for Your Health - Create Healthy Habit

"People with poor reading skills are likely to be less healthy than those who read easily, according to recent research. Literacy skills are important for keeping in good shape.

 

Advice on nutrition, healthy diet and physical activity is increasingly communicated through newspaper and magazine articles and on the internet,” Lundetræ explains.
“We receive a great deal of information by reading. It’s conceivable that certain people miss out on important health advice because they read poorly and seldom.

 

Compared with gender, age, education and income, literacy is the variable which has the strongest correlation with self-perceived health." Read more.

 

 

and read :-)