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Dance Dance Revolution Exercise Study
krf writes "Gamasutra reports that researchers in West Virgina are doing a study on using DDR to fight childhood obesity." From the article: "The study, which is currently budgeted at $60,000, provides each of the selected 85 child participants with a game system, copy of the game, and dance pad."
yes but mcdonalds makes billions, we should offset the cost of insurance by taking part of mcdonalds profits so they don't have to suffer so.
Exercise inspired by videogames. Imagine if they took FIFA Soccer for PS2 and made a real sport out of it! Could work? Sounds a lot more likely than someone turning EA's "ice hockey" game NHL-2005 into an actual pro sport that someone plays on real ice.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Sincerely, I hope this fight childhood obesity campaign turns into a genuine ddr craze, because I've been waiting for a 9th mix forever. Unfortunately, I have this looming fear that if and when another mix is finally released, it'll be some kind of sweatin' to the oldies from hell.
Just remember, ddr is a cool game... PERIOD. It's not just a way to lose weight.
Every time you read this, I am going against my principles.
Consider the following...
A single pack of large fries contains 17.5g of fat. If we assume a store will sell 100 packs of large fries, that is 1750g, or 3.85 lbs of fat.
In 1 week, the store puts out 27 lbs of fat.
In 1 year, the store puts out 1404 lbs of fat.
There are over 12,000 mcdonads in the US
Assuming each store sells an average 100 packs of large fries, 12,000 mcdonalds stores put out 16,848,000 lbs of fat.
Assuming the same number of sales in big macs (21.5g). That translates to 20,660,640 lbs of fat in 1 year.
I can have a decent sized sandwich with cheese at about the 10g range. Replacing a burger/fry lunch with that would be only 9,609,600 lbs of fat, or a savings of 27,899,040 lbs of fat from being eaten.
Its almost sickening thinking about it.
Dood, you americans are so fat because you insist on using that old imperial system. Weight yourself in IS units and you'll be all lighter faster than you can say "kilogram". An example? You say you weight 170 lbs, if you were using kg you'd be weighting only 77! ;)
Where is that guy who'd die defending what I had to say when I need him?
No... you've got a salad with abnormally large crutons...
It doesn't work now. They buy a TV for each child.