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Dance Dance Revolution Exercise Study

Posted by Zonk on from the shake-your-groove-thing dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Interesting Concept by Impotent_Emperor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Back in my day, my mother kicked us kids out of the house to get some "god damned peace and quite".

    So, the trick is for parents to have more than one child. Said children will fight over limited resources (television, Nintendo, Legos, etc.). At which point one or both parents will become pissed off. The children will then be kicked out of the house and left to their own devices. (In our case, it was playing baseball except with apples from a nearby tree. It was messy.)

  2. why do they call this research? by Dr.Opveter · · Score: 2, Interesting

    obese child + no exercise = obese child
    obese child + no exercise + bad food = increasingly obese child

    so, start a healthy diet and you'll see improvement. On top of that please exercise regularly and you'll see dramatic improvement. What's a way to get non active kids raised on fast food and tv dinners back on track? Make exercise fun, make eating healthy food attractive.

    disclaimer: i might be wrong; not all obese kids are on a bad diet without exercise, some kids are born big.

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