Post #2518521
2026-05-12 08:06 UTC
BBC #6music News: "People who read books or visit museums regularly have a biological age a year younger than those who don't" THERE ARE OTHER FACTORS AT PLAY I DON'T THINK THE BOOKS JUST MAGICALLY MAKE YOU HEALTHIER
Replies (5)
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@Walrus@toot.wales 2026-05-12 08:16
@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk It's not like me to defend the BBC, but I don't think they were suggesting correlation was causation. Or were they?
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@rgarner@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 08:23
@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk that's right, you've got to eat the books with the right kind of glue
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@Darkedge@mastodon.me.uk 2026-05-12 08:24
@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk aka poor people live shorter. No sh*t
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@internetsdairy@mastodon.art 2026-05-12 10:15
@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk I eat a book a day and have regressed to baby form please help bbc
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@ianturton@mapstodon.space 2026-05-12 11:59
@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk I'm choosing to believe that reading is all the exercise I need