Level up a gamer’s health with 3Es
Spending time playing game all day long with little physical activities and lack of selfcare may cause health issues such as obesity, bone and joint diseases, muscular dystrophy, and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and that also includes stress and pressure from interaction with people around you or from determination to win the game. Here are some health tips for the gamers to stay physically and mentally healthy with the concept of 3Es: Eating, Exercise, and Emotion.
3Es tips for gamer lifestyle
1. E-Eating: The heathy eating code of 2:1:1
Secret code does not exist only in the games as we have healthy eating code to help you lose belly fat and control your weight with the 2:1:1 eating code by dividing your dish into 4 parts where:
• 2 parts are vegetables like fresh or blanched vegetables, and low-sugar fruits like apple, guava, and dragon fruit. You should also eat varieties of fruits and vegetables
• 1 part is carbohydrate such as brown rice, semi-polished rice, wholewheat bread, corn, and taro.
• 1 part is meat. The examples of low-fat meat include chicken breast and fish. Or you may choose to get protein from egg, soy, and tofu.
Another health promoting behavior is to eat every meal on time. Don’t let the game time starve you because it may lead to overconsumption and damaged metabolism which can easily lead to obesity. Further, you should avoid fast food, instant food, and frozen food. Even though they are convenient, they do not have nutritional diversity, and they are also high in calories, salt, sugar, and fat. Moreover, you should not have deep-fried snacks and high-sugar beverages at hand during the game time because you will keep snacking on them unconsciously, increasing unnecessary calories intake. One more tip for you is to drink probiotic milk, yoghurt, and beverages high in fiber to help stimulate regular bowel movement because cumulative stress may cause disorders of digestive and excretory system, resulting in constipation. Snack on fruits instead, especially yellow and orange fruits like papaya, orange, and cantaloupe. They are sources of vitamin A and Beta-carotene which help support eye health and can help reduce the risk of macular degeneration from all-day gaming.
2. E-Exercise: Team up in real life
Sitting and playing game after getting energy from the food will not burn all the calories you have received, increasing the risk of developing obesity. Here we have some challenges for you to stay healthy with E-Exercise. Begin with basic level, while the game is paused, loading, or reviving your defeated character, take a break to stretch your muscles, change sitting position and relax your posture to reduce repeated compression on the certain parts of your body to help relax your muscle, tendon, neck, and shoulder. This will also help preserve your bone and joint health. Alternatively, you may remind yourself every hour to go to the toilet, wash your face, drink water, and etc. The next thing is to occasionally exercise with your gaming teammate with whom you often play online games to see everyone in real life, exerting energy for your health the same way you do in the game. You may play badminton or tennis that will encourage you to move your body in different directions to exercise every part of the body including neck, shoulders, wrists, elbows, arms, legs, knees, and ankles. Each set does not take a long time, so it will not be so tiring, and you can switch player to enjoy the team play.
Sitting and playing game after getting energy from the food will not burn all the calories you have received, increasing the risk of developing obesity. Here we have some challenges for you to stay healthy with E-Exercise. Begin with basic level, while the game is paused, loading, or reviving your defeated character, take a break to stretch your muscles, change sitting position and relax your posture to reduce repeated compression on the certain parts of your body to help relax your muscle, tendon, neck, and shoulder. This will also help preserve your bone and joint health. Alternatively, you may remind yourself every hour to go to the toilet, wash your face, drink water, and etc. The next thing is to occasionally exercise with your gaming teammate with whom you often play online games to see everyone in real life, exerting energy for your health the same way you do in the game. You may play badminton or tennis that will encourage you to move your body in different directions to exercise every part of the body including neck, shoulders, wrists, elbows, arms, legs, knees, and ankles. Each set does not take a long time, so it will not be so tiring, and you can switch player to enjoy the team play.
3. E-Emotion: Getting upset because of your teammate? Take a break to watch fun game steaming:
Yes, we take gaming seriously, but it may not come out as we expect. Don’t let yourself get so upset or stressed out with it. Take a break to watch game streaming by other players, where you may learn new techniques from them to finish a difficult stage or boss. Alternatively, you may watch some funny videos to help calm your mind and maintain healthy E-Emotion. Sometimes, you may feel so engaged in the game that you do not want to interact with other people, but you should maintain healthy relationship with your family and friends. You may communicate with them via online channels, and set a date to eat out with your friends to live in offline world from time to time to really take a break from the game and pay more attention to people around you.
Yes, we take gaming seriously, but it may not come out as we expect. Don’t let yourself get so upset or stressed out with it. Take a break to watch game streaming by other players, where you may learn new techniques from them to finish a difficult stage or boss. Alternatively, you may watch some funny videos to help calm your mind and maintain healthy E-Emotion. Sometimes, you may feel so engaged in the game that you do not want to interact with other people, but you should maintain healthy relationship with your family and friends. You may communicate with them via online channels, and set a date to eat out with your friends to live in offline world from time to time to really take a break from the game and pay more attention to people around you.
With these health tips for gamer, apart from improving your gaming techniques, they will also help you properly balance your time between game time and daily routine in a healthier way. This will help improve gamers’ physical and mental health so that you can enjoy better gaming experience. Whatever your life style is, you can do 3Es in your own way.
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