Why bingo is good for your healt

IT’S no kale super smoothie, but researchers reckon playing bingo can be just as good for you.

A study into the benefits of various social activities conducted by Chicago’s Rush University Medical Centre and published in the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences has shown there are many health benefits to a good old game of bingo. In fact, of all the activities studied, bingo was one of the most beneficial as it involves being with other people as well as keeping alert monitoring numbers being called out to see if they won a prize.

The researchers studied 1,000 adults and investigated how much help subjects needed looking after themselves as they entered their 80s. It found that those people who were most sociable were less likely to need assistance with things such as getting dressed or going up stairs. Another study conducted by the Psychology Department at the University of Southampton found playing bingo regularly can sharpen your mental faculties. When you play bingo, you are required to stay alert which makes your mind more agile. Prolonged playing of bingo simply increases the power of your brain – much like training for a marathon. The British Medical Association has said games like bingo can even help patients heal quickly and help lower the levels of depression following a serious illness. Salisbury District Hospital in the UK has even fo the length of hospital decreased among eld patients who played b during their recovery Other research has found bingo requires players to develop good eye-hand co-ordination.

And if you win, well that’s even better for you.

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