The gaming world is getting fat!

[greenmedic88]

It's southern cooking in general, not that you can't find every type of food in uban or even near urban areas in the South.

But try finding anything at a typical southern franchise like Waffle House that isn't cooked in oil or grease and you won't be able to order anything.

The great contradiction we have in the States today is that all the cheapest food (processed, bleached white flour, refined sugar or HFCS, trans fats, etc.) typically has the least nutritional content, and the highest level of fat and sodium.

Fast food and snack foods in general are largely to blame. Cheap, high in calories, high in fat, high in sodium or high in sugar or corn syrup (drinks), low or no fiber and often low grade proteins and low nutritional value. Essentially the opposite of what you would be eating as a performance athlete, or just a fit person in general.

Of course, you can always find sensible selections at even fast food places (if you don't order them with an extra large Coke and fries), but this is NOT why people eat at fast food joints.

But sure, the sedentary lifestyle doesn't help at all, and that lifestyle is supported by heavy gaming.

Wii Fit won't change that. If you're really using it to exercise, rather than as a temporary novelty to be dropped when you pick up the next big title, you will have to push yourself regularly to see results and most likely, tailor your eating habits to maximize the effects.

I'm not sure there would be much point to a Wii Fit 2 if all they do is change the exercises around (there's already more than enough variety to do a different workout every day of the week).

They could implement some sort of calorie tracker and nutrition planner (which would actually work perfectly with just the DS) paired with exercise programs specifically tailored for individual people (depending upon what sport you play, or what aspect of fitness you specifically want to work on be it increased stamina or increased strength, etc), but I'm not convinced something that detailed is necessary for the general demographic that uses Wii Fit.