The Benefits and Negatives of Playing Hockey

I'm comparing and contrasting the effects of hockey on your health. Which hockey was one of Richard Anderson's hobbies, so I wanted to to know if he would have gotten adverse health effects.

Fighting in hockey is bad for your health, several hockey players have gotten diagnosed  with brain damage but more specificly they got chronic trauma enecphalophy or CTE for short, CTE is a degenerative disease. Fighting in hockey can cause you to get a concussion. But if the brain moves around to much it will result in a concussion and possible brain damage.

But hockey also has its benefits for your health. Playing hockey can help you stay in shape because you have to make a lot of short burst sprints. Which hockey also requires you to work your whole body and as a result it builds your upper and lower body strength. Hockey requires so much energy that you can use on average 10 calories per minute.

Both articles agreed that playing hockey was good for your health because it uses your whole body.  It also burns a lot of calories.

Both articles disagreed that playing hockey with its current rules is unhealthy. The reasoning is because in article one they talk about how fighting can increases the risk of getting brain damage or can cause you to get a concussion which could turn in to brain damage.

But in article two they don't talk about fighting but about talk about the health benefits. Which one of the health benefits they talked about is how it can build your upper and lower body, also while burning an average of 10 calories per minute.

Which the difference between the two of them is that first article talks about how playing hockey can can cause you to get brain damage. Then it also talks about how hockey shouldn't be played with its current rules. Where as in article two they talk about how hockey can help your health.

I partially agree with both articles but agree with article one on the fact that the fighting rules in hockey should be very strict. But I also agree with article two because hockey is good for your health when your not fighting. As I said in the beginning this is one of Richard Anderson's hobbies and almost become his career and I wanted to figure out what could have happen to his health if he played Professional hockey.

 Link to Article One

Link to Article Two

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