That's just so wrong. Everyone knows that if you're a teen and fat you spend your time eating food and not excercising by moving your thumbs! Silly little article.

Hey this is written in Ottawa! And Im in Ottawa

woot at pointless coincidences

Why do people do these studies? Do they get pleasure from drawing ridiculous conclusions from random experiments? Is the pay good? Do they get discounts on pizza or something?

I don't know why everybody has taken this as an attack on video gamers. If you read the article, the term used is "screen time". Now I'm assuming a majority of the overweight kids in this study are generally lazy (which is what usually makes you fat), and from my experiences these lazy people tend to spend a lot of time watching TV and browsing the internet. It isn't much of a stretch to assume that the non-gamers represent a majority of this sample anyway.

Also, this is another one of these articles that Health Canada is attempting to do, so they can do the Canadian thing: tell people they are bad parents in the nicest possible way.

it's a destructive cycle. You're fat and then start to play games- then the games keep you from exercising and moving which compounds the problem. Thus you get fatter as you play more, and you'll be playing more because you're fatter.

<_< then you blow up

I believe it's the weekly paychecks. You might also ask why people do anything when they could be doing something else. Again, the paychecks.

Funny how a good segment of this thread looked at the article backwards. Jeez, not everyone is out to condemn gaming folks.

that lad has a big set of cankles

Breaking news from the Daily Obvious

Tom "In other news, if you like men, chances are your a homosexual.

This just in if you love to eat lard but hate to work out, your probably fat.

Scientists say it requires 2 things one a love to ingest lard and the second not working out.

In plain english: Bad eating habits, and no way to burn calories means you gain weight."

Bill "That's shocking Tom."

Summer scholars or grad students, i bet. It's a sweet gig. If i get in, i'm going to get paid $3,200 for the summer to compile some research.

Cankles *vomits*

OT: How about we start blaming bad parenting/overeating/eating the wrong things instead of games? Seems more logical...