Friday, June 11, 2010

According to a new study by Dr Dominic Micklewright of the University of Essex, professional gamers have the reactions of airline pilots but the health standards of chain smokers. Gamers who play sports based games have mental sharpness and psychological traits comparable to 'real' athletes. In fact they reacted to visual stimuli almost as fast as fighter jet pilots.

However the same gamers have very low fitness levels, comparable to people either much younger or much older than their actual age. Gamers spend up to 10 hours a day in front of a computer screen.

The Evening Post earlier reported that allowing a kid under the age of 10 to play a computer game is like giving him a line of coke. Moreover, gaming can decay teeth - most gamers tend to chew on junk food while playing video games which result to poor levels of oral health, especially among young teenagers. Video gamers who spend more time at the playing games on the screen are more than twice as likely to develop tooth decay as those with more active lifestyles. Teenagers prefer to eat sugary foods while absorbed in any game and in countries like UK 50 percent of teens have a video game console in their homes, 97 percent of which play (and eat while playing) regularly.

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