SYDERFE

Syntactically Dense Readership Flow Empathizing (SYDERFE)

Read books on exercise, diet, tea, socializing, relationships, finances, volunteering, better control, optimism, positivity, growth mindset, sex and sleep for extending your life to 99+.

India, Thailand, China, Germany, Australia as the top five while the US ranks very low and fails to make the two 20 nations.

Senior Matters Yale Study Finds Reading Books Adds to Longevity

Erenfeld, T. (August 23, 2016). Want to Add Two Years to Your Life? Read a Novel. The Weekly Standard.

Pinker, Steven. (2011). The Better Angels of Our Nature. New York: Penguin Books, the Penguin Group. P. 177.

Temma Ehrenfeld : Want To Add Two Years To Your Life? Read a Novel

Post, Steven. (2007). Why Good Things Happen to Good People. New York: Broadway Books, an imprint of The Doubleday Broadway Publishing, Group, a division of Random House.

Buttner, J. (August 13, 2016). Reading Prolongs, Life, Yale Study Shows.

Enjoy 5 benefits of spending an hour in library

Reduction of stress of crowding (destress)

Optimism and esteem boost via introspection.

Escape noise pollution (traffic, industry, social media, TV etc.)

Syntactically Dense Readership Flow Empathizing (SYDERFE)

No Passive inert mental and physical hazardous sedentariness

Bavishi et al published A chapter a day: Association of book reading with longevity in Social Science and Medicine Sep 2016,; Vol 164, Pages 44-48 Book reading provides a survival advantage among the elderly (HR = 0.80, p < 0.0001). Books are more advantageous for survival than newspapers/magazines. The survival advantage of reading books works through a cognitive mediator. Books are protective regardless of gender, wealth, education, or health. Although books can expose people to new people and places, whether books also have health benefits beyond other types of reading materials is not known. This study examined whether those who read books have a survival advantage over those who do not read books and over those who read other types of materials, and if so, whether cognition mediates this book reading effect. The cohort consisted of 3635 participants in the nationally representative Health and Retirement Study who provided information about their reading patterns at baseline. Cox proportional hazards models were based on survival information up to 12 years after baseline. A dose-response survival advantage was found for book reading by tertile (HRT2 = 0.83, p < 0.001, HRT3 = 0.77, p < 0.001), after adjusting for relevant covariates including age, sex, race, education, comorbidities, self-rated health, wealth, marital status, and depression. Book reading contributed to a survival advantage that was significantly greater than that observed for reading newspapers or magazines (tT2 = 90.6, p < 0.001; tT3 = 67.9, p < 0.001). Compared to non-book readers, book readers had a 23-month survival advantage at the point of 80% survival in the unadjusted model. A survival advantage persisted after adjustment for all covariates (HR = .80, p < .01), indicating book readers experienced a 20% reduction in risk of mortality over the 12 years of follow up compared to non-book readers. Cognition mediated the book reading-survival advantage (p = 0.04). These findings suggest that the benefits of reading books include a longer life in which to read them

Pino and Mazza published The Use of "Literary Fiction" to Promote Mentalizing Ability. in PLoS One. 2016 Aug 4;11(8):e0160254 Empathy is a multidimensional process that incorporates both mentalizing and emotional sharing dimensions. Empathic competencies are important for creating interpersonal relationships with other people and developing adequate social behaviour. The lack of these social components also leads to isolation and exclusion in healthy populations. However, few studies have investigated how to improve these social skills. In a recent study, Kidd and Castano (2013) found that reading literary fiction increases mentalizing ability and may change how people think about other people's emotions and mental states. The aim of our study was to evaluate the effects of reading literary fiction, compared to nonfiction and science fiction, on empathic abilities. Compared to previous studies, we used a larger variety of empathy measures and utilized a pre and post-test design. In all, 214 healthy participants were randomly assigned to read a book representative of one of three literary genres (literary fiction, nonfiction, science fiction). Participants were assessed before and after the reading phase using mentalizing and emotional sharing tests, according to Zaki and Ochsner' s (2012) model. Comparisons of sociodemographic, mentalizing, and emotional sharing variables across conditions were conducted using ANOVA. Our results showed that after the reading phase, the literary fiction group showed improvement in mentalizing abilities, but there was no discernible effect on emotional sharing abilities. Our study showed that the reading processes can promote mentalizing abilities. These results may set important goals for future low-cost rehabilitation protocols for several disorders in which the mentalizing deficit is considered central to the disease, such as Autism Spectrum Disorders and Schizophrenia.