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Health advert sparks gaming row

12 Mar

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With the concerns of rising obesity in children, the Government has released an advert suggesting that many children might be facing a shorter life expectancy due to the large amount of time they spend playing computer games rather than doing something more physically active.

The games industry have lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority stating that this broadbrush statement is inaccurate and that playing computer games is not the main cause of overweight and sedentary children.

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Posted in Health and safety, Impact of ICT, Social effects of ICT

 

Games consoles ’cause skin sores’

01 Mar

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We all know that computer games and consoles can be blamed for many things but did you ever think that they might be responsible for a new disease?

Recently a ten-year old girl in Switzerland went to her doctor with painful red, sore lumps on the palms of her hands.  After ruling out many possible causes it seems that the problem appeared following many hours of playing on her new PlayStation without any breaks.  It has since been named, ‘PlayStation palmar hidradenitis’.  This new problem follows closely on the tail of a number of people presenting with acute tendonitis, otherwise dubbed as ‘Wiitis’.

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Online networking ‘harms health’

19 Feb

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Gone are the days when it was normal for kids to ‘play out’ with their friends after school.  The chances are that most of them will be chatting with one another online either via an instant messaging service or through a social networking site.

Many people, parents included, might thing, ‘what’s the harm, at least I know where they are and they’re safe’.  However Dr Sigman, a biologist, argues differently.  He believes that social networking sites end up keeping people apart and could actually affect our health, increasing the long-term risk of serious health problems such as cancer, strokes, heart disease and dementia.

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Posted in Communication, Impact of ICT