Advice for Healthy Game Playing Habits - Part 1

While online games can be excellent sources of entertainment and education for kids and adults alike, too much time spent on the computer can have unhealthy effects.

Tips for healthy game play include:

• Although it’s easy to get caught up in game playing action, try to limit the time spent on the computer. Save game play for times when you would normally settle down to watch television or read. Consider mixing up your nightly routine so that your game play is limited to only a few nights per week.
• When you play games online, sit up straight and position your computer screen at a comfortable viewing distance. If you find you are slouching, raise your monitor up to eye level. If you play games on a laptop computer, consider investing in an ergonomic keyboard and mouse. These are much easier on your hands, arms and posture.
• Schedule breaks in your game play for approximately every thirty minutes to allow you to get up and move around. By keeping food or beverages in another room, you ensure that you will have to get up from the computer in order to get a drink or healthy snack. These set breaks will cause minimum disruption in the action of your game play, and will help you come back to the game in a more alert state.

What are some of your Slingo Playing habits? Share them with the community by clicking on the comments link below and stay tuned to this blog for part 2 of Healthy Game Playing Habits.