Can video games be a part of healthy activity

Did you know that “97% of 12-17 year olds in the US played video games in 2008, thus fueling an $11.7 billion domestic video game industry.”(Procon.org) Video games are entertaining for many people around the world and allows them to feel comfortable with technology. Researchers have argued that video games have both advantages and disadvantages. In the first place, video games can improve eye to hand coordination. Also, different video games have different advantages such as playing “Call of Duty” may improve your reaction time or eyesight. On the other hand, playing too much video games will cause you to fall on academic performance, strain your eyes and causes isolationism between friends and family. Nevertheless, playing video games is an unhealthy activity that has “unhealthy” consequence more than “healthy”consequence.

In the First place, let’s go on the researcher’s and doctor’s survey. Their plot is to persuade teenagers how different video games have different advantages. So, according to Huffingtonpost.com, researchers stated 9 ways video games are satisfactory for your own life. First example is, “To better understand how video games affect the brain, German researchers conducted a study, which was released this week. They asked 23 adults with a median age of 25 to play "Super Mario 64" for 30 minutes a day over a period of two months. A separate control group did not play video games at all. Examining the brains of the two groups using an MRI machine, they found that the gaming group had a rise in gray matter in the right hippocampus, right prefrontal cortex and the cerebellum -- areas of the brain responsible for spatial navigation, memory formation, strategic planning and fine motor skills in the hands.” This justif...

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In Conclusion, different adults won against researchers on should video games can be a health benefit because, in the first place, researchers stated that video games have benefits on different teenagers and gamers. For example, Different websites such as Huffingtonpost.com, Nytimes.com, Wikipedia.org, or Mda.gov.sg supports different advantages including: Pain Reliver, Eye and hand coordination, Make teens feel comfortable with technology and especially it entertains differents teens and gamers. On the other hand, the disadvantages of playing video games have more critical area because, it could cause eye strain, fall on academic performance on any subject, obesity, and isolationism. As a matter of fact, Doctors recommend to play at most 30 min of playing video games. Which is why Adults won over the Researcher and it has harmful radiation on the screen.