With the UK's children suffering from huge weight gains, health experts now want them to start doing 'virtual PE'
Computer games, the prime suspects when health experts try to explain why the UK's children are the most obese in the nation's history, have now emerged as a potential cure for overweight youngsters.
The latest Government's attempt to tackle the child obesity problem stems from an acclaimed initiative in which Nintendo Wii consoles were used to tempt inactive pupils into "virtual PE" after years of dodging games lessons. The project, at five schools in Worcestershire, found that children queued up at lunchtimes for their chance to play video games on the Wii. Heart monitoring revealed that the pupils became fitter with regular use of the consoles.
Reported by Brian Brady, Whitehall Editor for The Independent on Sunday, 27 January 2008
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Edit: If this can be done in a Scott Pilgrim movie kind of way that would be dope.
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lol it been proven wii does NOT help reduce fat.
Go play some football looser.
"But, bu, but! Wii Fit! Wii Fit is exercise."
Not really. It's movement, its 'activity' but it's hardly strenuous, maintained and result driven exercise.
I have a kinesiology degree, I have trained every level of fitness from pre-natal to elderly to athletics. I was a fitness director for Goodlife for 3 years. Take my advice. You don't need an $80 piece of plastic (not including the $250 machine) to do push-ups. You just need a floor.
It's great that this sort of thing - in theory - motivates people to move more. But nothing can replace ACTUAL exercise for results. I'm sure that there are a few fanatics out there who will attempt to prove those who share my thinking wrong - doing Wii Fit 3 times per day, doing the push-up routine 8 times. But what they don't realize is that they are in essence doing exercise, which back to my original point, you don't need a Wii to do.
I'm not hating on Wii Fit, I think it's very crafty marketing to a public that is starved for 'quick fixes'. And I applaud those who you the product, and a healthy dose of their OWN SELF DRIVE, to achieve results.
For most people it'll just go the way of the Gazelle (or any other Tony Little, ab, ass, leg, whatever product).
Cheers,
- C
Honestly, for people who are afraid of sunlight and interaction with other people Dance Dance Revolution is the best way to lose weight with a video game. But what people fail to realize is, it doesn't work if you eat pop-tarts or hot pockets in between songs. Also cut down on the soda, drink water or something else.
No, the answer to child obesity is *drums* Dance Dance Revolution.
The answer to child obesity is to go outside and get some exercise. Lazy dorks.