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SPORTS MEDICINE :
PHYSICAL EXERCISE AND FITNESS :
RECREATION: GAMES: ELECTRONIC:
Exergames Dont Cure Young Couch Potatoes
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Exergames Dont Cure Young Couch Potatoes
By RANDALL STROSS
Published: June 23, 2012
Business Day
Digital Domain
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/business/
active-video-games-dont-make-youths-more-active.html
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GETTING our sedentary, overweight children off the couch is a challenge.
Thats why the Nintendo Wii game console, which arrived in the United
States six years ago, was such an exciting prospect. It offered the chance
for children to get exercise without even leaving the house.
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Tennis was one of the games in the Wii Sports software that came right in
the box with the console. This was the progenitor of exergames, video
games that led to hopes that fitness could turn into irresistible fun.
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But exergames turn out to be much digital ado about nothing, at least as
far as measurable health benefits for children. Active video games
distributed to homes with children do not produce the increase in physical
activity that nae parents (like me) expected. Thats according to a study
undertaken by the Childrens Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of
Medicine in Houston, and published early this year in Pediatrics, the
official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Previous studies have shown that adults and children who play active video
games, when encouraged in an ideal laboratory setting, engage in moderate,
even vigorous physical activity briefly. The Baylor team wanted to
determine what happened when the games were used not in a laboratory, but
in actual homes.
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The participants in this study were children 9 to 12 years old who had a
body mass index above the median and whose households did not already have
a video game console. Each was given a Wii. Half were randomly assigned to
a group that could choose two among the five most physically demanding
games that could be found: Active Life: Extreme Challenge; EA Sports
Active; Dance Dance Revolution; Wii Fit Plus; and Wii Sports. The other
half could choose among the most popular games that are played passively,
like Disney Sing It: Pop Hits and Madden NFL 10.
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Asked about this study and the one at Baylor, a Nintendo spokesman issued
this statement: While Nintendo does not make any health claims with
active-play games like Wii Sports and Wii Fit Plus, we hope that the games
encourage users to be more physically active. They are designed to get
people up off the couch and to have fun.
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For physical activity that brings measurable health benefits, kids need
things like real balls, real rackets and real courts.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Exergaming gets kids who prefer digital technology off the couch
Kemp
AAP News 2011; 32:2
Exergaming gets kids who prefer digital technology off the couch
Carla Kemp
AAP News 2011; 32:2;
doi:10.1542/aapnews.20113212-2
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