Healthy Positive Impacts of Video Games

     Playing video games have positive impact to our body and health. Video games has become more popular lately and many people are becoming more interested in it, especially kids and teenager. Parents or guardians might get worried that video games will only bring negative effects on their child. However, researchers from Brazil and UK ran an investigate of physiological effects of video games. The results showed that playing video games had very similar physiological effects to the traditional treadmill exercising and other exercises. Parents concern about video game is understandable but it is also entirely not true. People already have a negative stereotype about video game but if they use video games in a good way, it can bring positive effects to body and health.     

Video games provide good and positive effects to our health. Many people viewed video games as a negative thing to our life, some of them thought it's just waste of time and would us make tired. Playing video games have beneficial and advantageous effects for our mental health and sensory motor skills. It can improve cognitive abilities, increase, enhanced hand to eye coordination and even reduce stress and depression. These effects are useful because it can help many people who are not able to relieve their stress. 2009's Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine included a study and found that players who suffered from mental health issues such as stress and depression were able to vent their frustration and aggression by playing video games and showed a noted improvement. These shows that video games have a lot of helpful effects, but many people only see it as a negative thing. Access to video games can help improve motor sensory skills and cure mental illness. Not only that, video games also have good impact to our physical body.

In summary, video games provide beneficial and positive effects towards our health. The positive effect of video games has been proven in many aspects of our life. They have been proven beneficial to our mental health, sensory motor skills and to physical body. Not only does it make us more active, but it also improves our body coordination. Many people are still worried about the negative effect, but they also need to know that video games have many advantageous benefits. It is time to focus seriously on the positive beneficial effect rather than the negative side.