Video Game Playing Increases Food Intake In Teens 99
An anonymous reader writes "There have been plenty of anecdotal associations between gaming and obesity. Now Canadian and Danish researchers have tested the hypothesis that video game playing leads to increased spontaneous food intake; a true test of causation vs. correlation. Their conclusion? 'A single session of video game play in healthy male adolescents is associated with an increased food intake, regardless of appetite sensations (abstract).'"
Careful Training (Score:2, Funny)
We've been conditioned by video games to run around avoiding ghosts, listening to techno, eating large quantities of fruit. :V
Now my brilliant insight (Score:3, Funny)
If they need some comfort food -- aka, they just got dominated by me in the game -- they should be taking something healthy. My semen, for example.