{"id":272,"date":"2018-02-23T09:18:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T09:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2018-02-23T09:18:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T09:18:16","slug":"playing-games-for-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Playing games for health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saga.co.uk\/magazine\/health-wellbeing\/mind\/health-benefits-of-playing-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saga Magazine<\/a> suggests you turn off your television and play board games to reduce your risk of dementia. A study published in the\u00a0<em>New England Journal of Medicine <\/em>says board games could be key to keeping your mind pin-sharp.\u00a0The study, undertaken at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, found a significant decreased incidence of dementia in patients\u00a0 who enjoyed playing board games on.<\/p>\n<p>Not just board games, bridge and sudoku are also shown to boost both body and mind.\u00a0Playing contract bridge increases your immune cell count, according to a study by a University of California-Berkeley researcher,\u00a0 Professor Marian Cleeves Diamond.<\/p>\n<p>And according to a study conducted at the University of Edinburgh, things like a game of sudoku could trigger the activation of &#8216;survival genes&#8217; in your brain, making cells live longer and helping to fight disease.\u00a0 &#8220;We&#8217;ve found that a group of these [survival] genes can make the active brain cells far healthier than lazy, inactive cells,&#8221; says Giles Hardingham, study author.<\/p>\n<p>Want to improve your memory? Scientists at the University of Toronto in Canada assessed two groups&#8217; ability to search for and find an object; their results showed that study participants who regularly played video games were far quicker at locating the target than those who didn&#8217;t play.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, researchers at the McGill University in Montreal claim their game Wham! actually increases self-esteem. Click on\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.selfesteemgames.mcgill.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.selfesteemgames.mcgill.ca<\/a>\u00a0to grow your own ego.<\/p>\n<p>And what about passively watching TV? Chinese researchers assessed the cognitive abilities of more than 5,000 people aged 55-plus over a period of five years and found that watching TV increased cognitive impairment.<\/p>\n<p>So now you know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-234\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/hand-2906429_1920.jpg\" alt=\"hand-2906429_1920\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/hand-2906429_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/hand-2906429_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/hand-2906429_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/hand-2906429_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/hand-2906429_1920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saga Magazine suggests you turn off your television and play board games to reduce your risk of dementia. A study published in the\u00a0New England Journal of Medicine says board games could be key to keeping your mind pin-sharp.\u00a0The study, undertaken at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, found a significant decreased incidence &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=272\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Playing games for health<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-friends","category-games","tag-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Playing games for health - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=272\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Playing games for health - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Saga Magazine suggests you turn off your television and play board games to reduce your risk of dementia. 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