Nintendo and London's Science Museum are teaming up to ask the question: Could videogames make you healthier? With Wii Fit hitting Europe in April, Play Away the Calories aims to find out, by inviting both gamers and slimmers to the Dana Center to discuss attitudes to losing weight and gaming, play some Wii titles, and generally have a laugh (there's also a bar there, I am promised).
Could video games make you healthier? With adult obesity rates having almost quadrupled in the last 25 years, might more interactive games technology really increase our fitness? Come along to play, and discover for yourselves.
If you're nearby and fancy going, the event is free and you can email tickets@danacentre.org.uk or call 020 7942 4040. You do need to pre-book if you're interested, and one can find a little more info here.
The organizers are trying to get a good cross-section of people going, so if you're nearby and free on March 26, it might be worth popping down to represent the gaming public, and of course, Destructoid. You might even see me there ... if I'm not too busy stuffing my fat face with pies and cakes that day.
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8:02 AM on 02.21.2008
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You want to see gamers lose weight, make em play DDR or Rock Band drums on Hard/Expert. It's that simple.
You mean the world? (besides almost all of Africa).
Yes, that's exactly what I mean.
Doesn't America have have the highest ratio of fat people in the world? All you find on Google is info on Americas obesity epidemic and such. I know Canada has some fat people running around (not really) but just a smaller %
Doesn't America have have the highest ratio of fat people in the world? All you find on Google is info on Americas obesity epidemic and such. I know Canada has some fat people running around (not really) but just a smaller %
"Doesn't America have have the highest ratio of fat people in the world?"
I believe so, its even worse in some states compared to others. Behind smoking, obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in America, and if trends continue it will overtake smoking sooner than you think. It also has to do with how the public views overweight people say vs. smokers. Smokers get openly ridiculed and harassed. You can look down your nose at a smoker, its socially acceptable, I'm not a smoker by the way, but call someone fat and all hell breaks lose.
After my Grandfather died some 5 years ago, he was 64 I believe, an overweight man, my uncle said something interesting to me that I'll never forget. He said "how many overweight people do you see in their 60's, 70's, 80's?" To which I answered "not many."
*sigh*
I need a gym membership.
a chunky father? seriously, what's behind those asterisks?
Still, I don't see why Wiifit couldn't work, a lot of the exercises on WiiFit are traditional (like push ups) and going from 0 physical activity to 30-60 mins of doing something would probably make enough change in that persons metabolism to make them loose at least a bit of weight.
Thankfully my metabolism and contempt keep me from becoming one of them.
yeah contempt probably burns a thousand calories a day. Also is that a Goya on your av?