From canada.com:

In the fight against childhood obesity, grim statistics continue to be reported.

One in four children in the U.S. spend at least three hours a day sitting in front of the computer surfing the net but not doing school work – up from 22 per cent in 2003.

Yet as an international conference being held in Montreal this week shows, the news isn’t all bleak. In fact, one of the evils that’s been blamed for contributing toward obesity in children – video games – is now being used to promote physical activity.
Exergaming is a ‘wholesome’ activity that is free of the violence that plagues so many of today’s video games, argues Linda Carson, a professor of physical education at West Virginia University.

It’s called exergaming, video games that spur children (as well as their parents) to use all their limbs rather than only their thumbs.

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