The more you read, the older your brain gets.

Study opens your mind, but it also helps keep it in shape for many years. The higher the level of education, the concious decline, or the loss of memory, and the attention are lost late.

Confirming the connection between the level of education and the health of the elderly comes from a study conducted by the University of California.

The study used data from a survey with the cognitive skills of 10,374 Americans in 2000 and a sample of 995 people over 65 years of age in 2010.

People were divided into several categories, according to educational level: elementary, high school, graduate, and postgraduates.

The study found little that between 2000 and 10 years of life without crime has increased, but especially among the most educated: 1.51 years for men and 1.79 years for women. The growth of years of life without cognitive problems was much lower among those with lower education, about 0.66 years for men and 0.27 years for women.

Those who had postgraduate education had memory skills even after the age of 80.