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Video games and Obesity
Obesity means being overweight. Eating too much and lack of exercise causes it. People who are obese suffer from many health problems such as diabetes, cancer as well as renal failure etc. It is therefore advisable to control one’s weight.
Children love to watch video games. Even adults enjoy them too. The number of hours spent watching them means less exercise as one is confined to the video set. The usual view held is that children as well as adults tend to eat while watching video games and therefore suffer from obesity.
Why playing video games causes obesity?
One is glued to the video set for hours and tend to eat simultaneously. Children live to have their favorite pizza and cold drink while watching and adults enjoy their fish and chips while doing so. The end result is that they eat too much and add on calories. They put on weight as they usually have fast foods and also do not keep a watch on their calories. Sitting or lying down on the sofa for hours is not healthy. Also it is better to avoid eating while watching video games.
Recent research…
Recent research claims that there is no relation to weight and watching television among children; but watching video games does lead to weight gain. Says Elizabeth A Vandewater, Ph D. and her colleagues from the University of Texas, appearing in the Journal of Adolescence that ” moderate” play , though sounding benign, can have great impact, since a large number of American children tend to watch electronic games.
The research survey covered about 2,831 children of the age from 1 to 12 and recording their media habits and calculated their body mass index (BMI). This is body weight ratio with regard to height and weight . It tells us how fat or thin a person is.
Vandewater adds, ” while both television and video game play can reasonably be considered sedentary activities, video game play was related to children’s weight status while television was not . This may mean that video game play, not television use, is indeed displacing the time children spend in more physically demanding pursuits.” The relation between television watching and weight is weak according to Vandewater.
Watching video games can cause obesity. One must not spend too much time watching these games. Physical activity would be better to control weight gain.
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Obesity is really an epidemic these days. People have become very lazy and does not want to exercise anymore. I do a lot of jogging and brisk walking everyday just to be fit and healthy.