ELMA IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH //by BarTek ======================================================================= INTRODUCTION I have relized that elma can make a dangerous effect on you. But how is that? Well beacuse i have been kinda affected by this and it doesnt take a brain-storming-session to figure it out. You could almost say that elma has the same effects as smoking cigarettes. ======================================================================= HOW DO YOU MEAN Well, its the same princip as when smoking cigarettes. You simply get higer blod-pressure and the heart must work harder to manage to pump out all the blod trough your veins. All human hearts beat no more or no less the same amount of times, its just about whos pumps slowly and whos pumps fast which in term can short your life. A person who is sitting home, eating chips and not being active is surtain to build up a high blod-pressure. When having a active elma life i doubt you get much excersise :D ======================================================================= WHAT EXACTLY EFFECTS MY HEART WHEN I HAVE A ACTIVE "ELMA LIFE" As far as i am consird there is these steppes you probably incounter when playing much elma. This is also what happend me in my erleir, sicker days when i freqeuntly played the game for hours and hours and hours (did i mention i played it for hours?). I am sure a big group of players have had this or is having it, what do i know, i can only guess but it is mine oppinion that this surley takes place with many people. ======================================================================= STEP 1 The general obsesion of the game makes you stay on the computer a little bit longer than with other games often beacuse you feel forced to make that time under 2 min on Apple Harvest or to get a exceptional time on a CUP level before the dealine runs out. Which way it goes you get stuck by the computer in a sitting position which i may add is not a natural thing for the human body. You are designed to live a active life and not being home in a frequent sitting position for hours. This way the body doesnt need much muscles and cuts back on the muscle masses you have. Also your heart grows smaller since u aint gonna need much blood pumping out when you play on the computer all the time. This is the general beginning to reduced health, but this often doesnt matter that much for most people, however this is surley a beginnig. ======================================================================= STEP 2 Since you get stuck with the game you tend to alter your life-style so it suits your elma playing. Most ppl that play elma doesnt really think that much of the game but there is those few ones (you and me) that get stuck with it. And before u know it you have chosen to play elma instead of hanging out whit a freind or pushing up some home-work so that you have the time over to play. This may result in little "never ending habbit dissorder" although many really do not wanna admit it beacuse they may think other ppl think they are obsessed or something. It really is the same as when u say that u can quit smoking whit out any trouble or that drinking hasnt controll of you...hehe1! When I myself got sick whit the game i began to find ways to play more, 5-7 hours where somethimes not enough for me omg. So i began to skip the lunch brakes in school in order to play more, even at home i somethimes ignored to eat beacuse it may had trown me of track when i hoyled a level. And i have been talking whit some ppl about this and they all confirmed that they ignored to eat so they could play more somethimes. Since u are so concentrated on the game u simply somethimes forget that u are hungry. So at this time you could say that i was not fysicly active and that i starved myself. The body needs food, and when you do not eat propper meals the body tend to brake down some of your storage-fat in your body. This may be dangerous over long time beacsue when the body runs out of fat storages it begins to brake down your muscles and internal organs. Not very likely it would happen to most people but its a damn good beginning. ======================================================================= STEP 3 As i mentioned i was always trying to find time to play, and it soon began to go over my hands. When i was not completely done whit a level or braking a record, i got so mad that i stuberdly contiuned to play long past bed-time. Some days i played to 03:00 or 04:00 after midnight. And often on regular days when i had school next day... argh... 4 hours sleep doesnt really help you. A human body needs minimus 8 hours as we all know, if you dont get enough sleep this results in you being tired and sleepy next day...but if you do this frequently your mind gets effected beacuse without sleep your brain will "over heat". This may kill as many braincells as if you went boxing with some dude. So what do we have so far: 1. Low fysical activity 2. Minimum neutrition 3. Way to little sleep This may sound rediculous but just amagin the mix of these things and how it may effect your body over 1 year or so ok. ======================================================================= STEP 4 And ofcorz the last step that nobody can escape. When you play elma you often get the chance to brake records (personal, wr, whatever). When you brake a record your blod pressure rises, when you have the last 10 seconds of a perfect race you get concintrated and the heart begins to beat hard and fast. This is also un-natural since u biuld up adrenaline whitout really doing anything fysical. This is hard for the heart and doesnt streingt your muscles...it just put your body trough a hell. And its scientificly proved that great frequent amount of unnessery adrenaline can mix up your brain functions...but again... only in very rare cases. ======================================================================= SUMMARY I am not saying that everbody gonna die or something like that...but i simply felt i had to write this. But you cant say that i have completly wrong, although many people doesnt really play that much and i know many kuskis excercise or whatever...hey...even i excercise in the gym and run a few laps in the summer. But this could in teori effect you very badly but only in extreme cases. It got me in bad shape and i did take a notice of this but its good to rememer these things cuz most of us are kinda allready unexcercised in this post modern society. ======================================================================= //BarTek The "Elma Artist"