21st June 2017

Obese
Gaming

GAMING
 Gaming
There are several risks and life threaten-
ing situations due to being Obese, such
as type 2 diabetes, coronary heart dis-
ease, some types of cancer such as breast
cancer and bowel cancer and strokes.
Obesity can also affect your
quality of life and could lead to psycho-
logical problems, such as depression and
The reason video games are being blamed
for obesity is because most people that
are obese have played video games or
still are playing video games and playing
video games requires the player to move
their thumbs and fingers to be able to
play the game by pressing buttons or
moving the analogue sticks depending on
what platform the user is playing games
on.
Gaming can help peoples lives as well as
being blamed for possibly ruining them,
the help that gaming can have on peoples
lives can consist of faster reaction times
possibly helping out in later life in situa-
Gaming can assist people when their
mental health is considered, if someone
suffers from depression or some mental
issues then gaming could possibly help
their mental state because it will take
their mind off of the subject and it will
allow them to concentrate on the game
meaning that they can get more involved
in the game rather than being more in-
volved in worry about their mental health
problems. When gaming people tend to
forget about their problems because they
need to focus and concentrate on the
game in order to complete a task, result-
ing in the fact that gaming is considered

The disease of gaming

low self-esteem. tions that may occur.. as good for someones mental health
in comparison to speaking to someone
about it

It has been confirmed by

scientists; active games are better for
a humans physical and mental health
because of devices such as the XBOX
Kinect. Only 39% of over 500 people
believe that gaming is considered as bad
for someones health. Only 39% of 500
people know the effect of video games on
someones physical health because gamers
are sat down not doing any physical ex-
ercise but still burning off a few calories
because they are moving their hands but
they are also
eating which has more calories than they

Gaming can
There are professional teams that
are burning off because not much exer-
There has been links between people who play games such as Overwatch, Call
cise is being done when they are gaming.
spend more than 1.5 hours gaming and Of Duty and Counter Strike: Global

help peoples
obesity, Offensive etc, but exercise is required
whereas people who spend less than so they are able to remain physically fit
1.5 hours have a 75.4% chance of not and healthy.

becoming obese. People are spending too
much time in front of a screen gaming
rather than doing some activities that are
considered as exercise. I understand that
people could have a career in gaming and
make their money via gaming or stream-
ing gaming,
lives
Children are more willingly wanting to
do exercise if the
exercise involves video games, this is
why the XBOX Kinect and the Play-
station VR are more commonly used
for exercise when video games are
involved. The XBOX Kinect requires
the user to move around a certain area
to match, decide the
avatars movements. The
playstation VR requires the user to
move around and interact with the
controllers to control their avatar.

Active games are better for a

humans physical and mental
health
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