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All your life, you have probably been raised to believe that carrots are the best tool to improve and sustain your eye sight, but what if there is a better way? Although many people, specifically parents, believe that playing video games can destroy your eyesight, it is actually proven that video games are better for your ocular health than carrots. So now there is no valid reason for your parents to make you put down that controller.

Many studies have been conducted to test the theory that action packed video games can be good for your ocular health, and many of these experiments have proven this theory to be true. According to scientists at the University of Rochester, playing high-action video games can improve one’s ability to distinguish between the shades of gray. Although this may seem like an insignificant change, the ability to distinguish between different shades of gray is very difficult for humans to maintain or improve.

Video games not only help people distinguish between shades, but also have improved the eyesight of those with cataracts and lazy eye. According to Nick Collins, a science corespondent, video games can improve the vision of young adults who were born with cataracts in not one, but both eyes. Cataracts is a clouding of the eye’s lens which prevents people from identifying details in low contrast colors or in the periphery. Collins stated that playing video games actually improved their ability to “spot small details, follow movements and spot subtle light changes” because the game requires you to focus straight ahead while still paying attention to everything that is happening in the periphery.

Experiments have also been conducted to test if video games can help correct lazy eye. The proven theory was that playing video games would correct a lazy eye by making the eye work harder. Dr. Daphne Maurer stated, at an American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, that “those improvements tell us that the adult brain is still plastic enough to be trained to overcome sensory deficiencies.”

In conclusion, playing video games are more conducive to ocular health than eating carrots because they can enhance the eyes’ ability to detect certain shades, to spot small details and subtle movements, and to help correct lazy eye.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9088262/Playing-video-games-improves-eyesight.html

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