10 HEALTH BENEFITS OF PLAYING VIDEO GAMES

1. IT MAY IMPROVE YOUR VISION
Study has shown that computer gaming can improve your vision because you are forced to look for details on the screen and manage to discern between different shades of colours. This also comes in handy in the real world because you find it easier to notice smaller details.

2. YOUR LEVEL OF CREATIVITY INCREASES
When video gaming, you have to get through the missions, learn all about the weapons, figure out where to hide, how to kill the bad guys and how to conquer in the harder levels. All these can be applied to your normal life, you find a new way to handle situations at work or at home.

3. IT REDUCES STRESS
Video games helps you take your mind off things. You become so involved in the excitement that comes with the game that you for get the reason why you were stressed in the first place.

4. IMPROVES YOUR SOCIAL SKILLS
Most players can connect online and chat with other people who are playing the games, thereby increasing the level of communication and connection skills. This can also be useful in normal life because interacting and self expression would be much easier.

5. IT HELPS WITH NETWORKING AND FORGING DEEPER FRIENDSHIPS
When playing online you tend to meet new people that you share the same interests with, you might not be in the same town or country but they would always be that online friend you turn to whenever you have a problem. Plus it boosts networking and connections.

6. IT IMPROVES DEXTERITY
For surgeons, video game play allows them the opportunity to improve their dexterity, which means less mistakes in the operating room. A study conducted with laparascopic surgeons found that those who played video games to improve dexterity were 27 percent faster and made 37 percent less errors than those who don't partake in a little video game action.

7. REDUCES FOOD CRAVINGS  
Food is the last thing on your mind when video gaming because you are so focused on the game plus your hands are on the joystick so there's no way you can eat except you have three hands.

8. PAIN RELIEF
For those suffering from depression or another mental disorder, video games offer a way for them to relax and cope with the pain during the wee hours of the night when it's hard to turn off their brains. Video games are also reported to help those suffering from chronic pain because it distracts them and reportedly builds up their pain tolerance.

9. YOU GAIN NEW KNOWLEDGE
This is pretty much a catch-all category for the beneficial things we can learn from games. Whether it’s learning about renaissance Italy from "Assassins Creed Brotherhood" or getting to know the national flags of the major footballing nations from the team select screen in "FIFA," games allow us to acquire knowledge.
The best thing is that there is no limit to what games can teach us. Just as a book can be written on any subject, a game can teach us about anything too. Whether it’s what type of cars were around in the 40’s ("LA Noire"), how Japanese armies mobilized for war ("Shogun"), or what’s the most dangerous modern automatic shotgun ("Black Ops"), there’s no limit to the domains of knowledge that games can cover.
It’s not just knowledge that we can acquire either. According to Professor James Gee of the University of Wisconsin, video games are an excellent choice for the cognitive development in children and adults. He explains that we get better at navigating mazes in games, we are actually getting better at the act of navigating mazes, not just better at the game. (credit: ranker.com)

10. YOU THINK FASTER
Number one rule of playing video games is thinking really fast because there are enemies everywhere so the faster you are able to get them the better your chances at winning.  If you can be fast while video gaming it means you can benefit from it in your real life too. It can help you increase your memory abilities, faster decisions mean you recall memories better and improve the rate of cell growth and repair.

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