Video games are good :)

Nowadays, people like to play video games, either children, teenagers or aldult. Even in this mild winter, daylight hours are limited and even naturally active and imaginative kids find themselves looking for something to pass a little idle time indoors. These become the days of the hand-held video games. Everyone knows the detrimental contribution of video games as a substitute for physical activity when it comes to childhood obesity. But many assume they must also be bad for vision, posture and children's hands. Well, is that videogames good or bad? Yes, playing video games are good.

According to the Hackensack University Medical Center ophthalmologist, the science just doesn't back up any assumption that there is a negative effect on vision. The worst they can surmise — and Guterman makes a point to say this is just a hypothesis — is that long periods of time spent focusing up close on handheld video games may, just like with avid early readers, cause near-sightedness. Hand-held video games actually have a proven positive effect on sight for some children. Guterman says that these games can help kids with a lazy eye. For those children wearing a patch over the good eye to help train the lazy eye, hand-held video games are becoming part of the treatment.

People who played action-based video and computer games made decisions 25 percent faster than others without sacrificing accuracy, according to a study. Indeed, the most adept gamers can make choices and act on them up to six times a second -- four times faster than most people, other researchers found. Moreover, practiced game players can pay attention to more than six things at once without getting confused, compared with the four that someone can normally keep in mind, said University of Rochester researchers. The studies were conducted independently of the companies that sell video and computer games.

Playing video games can developing reading and math skills . Young gamers force themselves to read to get instructions follow storylines of games, and get information from the game texts.  Also, using math skills is important to win in many games that involves quantitative analysis like managing resources.

Video games are very powerful conditioning systems a powerful learning and reward systems. People should learn to get the all benefits from playing video game.

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Cindy Lim