Bingo: Good For Your Health?
Bingo is a popular game that goes back a long, long, way. The game of bingo was first played in Europe, and then it made its way to America after the Second World War. During the years of depression, when almost all forms of entertainment were suffering, this is the time that Bingo took off in The States.
Old theaters that formerly offered only movies offered bingo nights, and saw these occasions turn into successful and profitable nights during one of the toughest economic times in the history of the world. At present, things have substantially changed. The good old bingo halls now have to go against online bingo.
Many critics of online bingo raise an eyebrow. Most of them are not into online games on the computer. Critics say that people are spending too much time dulling their reflexes, and brains, at their computers.
No one would actually argue with the fact that a life spent just in front of the computer all day long isn't totally healthy; nonetheless, a recent study done in the United Kingdom has, basically, proven many of these online bingo skeptics incorrect.
Both the conventional, and online bingo, games have been tested, and found to boost the activity of the brain and its reflexes. These studies were actually conducted amongst elderly players across The United Kingdom, and the conclusions they came to surprised the skeptics.
The tests revealed that those who had experience playing bingo regularly have scored higher on their tests of mental agility. Bingo players that play regularly had greater memory, mental speed, and greater ability to sense information from their surroundings.
The studies have also shown that elderly people benefited, health-wise, by involving themselves in the activity of bingo-playing.
Other kinds of games that require skills also help players to improve their brain and reflex activity, like Backgammon and Chess. Nevertheless, these kinds of games do not bring about the same outcome as players can get from playing bingo. Chess, like backgammon, depends on information that is typically stored in the player's brain, and then it will be used when it is most needed.
In the game of bingo, although it is much simpler, it also calls on skills that are being acted upon quickly under time pressure. This maintains brain activity, despite the simplicity of the game.
Critics have their numerous reasons why online games are dulling of brain functions (and time-wasting), but all the same, there are studies that prove them incorrect. Players playing bingo regularly have been proven to increase, in a positive way, brain activity and reflex time.
"Brain-numbing" and "time-wasting" is simply an incorrect analysis of online, and regular, bingo; playing bingo is healthy.
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