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Reading can spark your imagination and take you
places you’ve never been—it’s also good for your
health. Getting lost in a book may help you:

LIVE A LONGER LIFE PROTECT YOUR BRAIN

If you want more time to read, Being a lifelong reader can make
keep reading. A study by Yale your brain healthier. Scientists
University researchers found that from Rush University Medical
book readers were 20 percent Center found that people who
more likely to stay alive than read and do other things that keep
people who didn’t read during a their minds active are less likely to
12-year follow-up period. develop dementia.

GET ALONG WITH OTHERS ADD MORE HEALTH AND

Being able to imagine yourself WELLNESS ARTICLES TO

in someone else’s shoes is an YOUR READING LIST BY

important social skill. A University SIGNING UP FOR OUR

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NEXT TIME YOUR kids go to a sleepover, ask them to keep these items to themselves: Summer—aka sleepover
season—is here. Don’t let
germs spoil the fun.

1. Lipstick. 2. Earrings. 3. Cell phones. 4. Nail clippers. 5. Hairbrushes and combs.

The mouth is a Like cell phones, These are reservoirs Scratching and nail Lice and germs can lurk
main entry point for earrings and other of bacteria that most biting can push bacteria in hair and the tools you
small particles that types of jewelry of us hardly ever and fungus beneath use to groom it. Ask your
can cause illness, are overlooked think to clean, but we fingernails. Sharing nail children to bring their own
including the herpes germ carriers. It’s should. Cell phones clippers can spread to sleepovers and avoid
virus and E. coli OK for your kids can carry 10 times those germs from one sharing them.
bacteria. Those to admire their more bacteria than sleepover guest to many.
microbes can sneak friends’ earrings a typical toilet seat,
onto lipstick and but discourage according to The NEED A PHYSICIAN FOR YOUR FAMILY?
easily spread, so one trying each University of Arizona. VISIT WWW.NAVICENTHEALTH.ORG/FIND-A-DOCTOR.
person per tube other’s on.
is best.

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