The British found the treatment of stress in the books

British doctors found that the surest way to overcome the stress response is read. It works better and faster than listening to music, a cup of tea or a walk. Researchers from the University of Sussex have been subjected to a series of voluntary tests and exercises that cause stress. Then they offered to take one of the most common methods of relaxation, and determine the effectiveness of the method to normalize the heart rate and muscle tone.

It turned out that it is best to reduce the stress level reading - by 68 percent. To normalize the heart rate and relax the muscles enough to read it in silence for six minutes. Listening to music reduces stress by 61 percent, a cup of tea or coffee - a 54 per cent, while walking - a 42 per cent. Video games reduce stress significantly worse (21 percent), and pulse during the game to the baseline values did not fall.

The author of the study, cognitive neurophysiology, David Lewis believes that no matter what book to read to overcome stress. You need only to plunge into it, «exploring the scope of copyright imagination». Do these goals, such as horror novels or collections of examination tasks, Lewis is not reported.