Books and balance: How daily reading enhances a healthy lifestyle

Life moves fast. Notifications buzz, deadlines pile up, and screens dominate almost every waking hour. Yet one quiet habit keeps proving itself against all that noise: reading. Something as simple as opening a book for twenty minutes a day can reshape how the brain functions, how the body responds to stress, and how a person feels by the end of a long week. It sounds almost too simple to be true. But research keeps backing it up.

The advantages of daily reading...