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Kid Health Experts Attack Video Game Summer Camp

Posted by Soulskill on from the friendly-environment-to-frag-noobs dept.

Jack Action writes "The University of British Columbia runs a summer camp where kids get to play computer games for three hours a day. The camp organizers say it is 'a good social opportunity for some kids who didn't fit into other programs.' However, health professionals declare they are 'troubled' by the camp. A professor in UBC's department of medicine says kids should be outside and engaged in 'unstructured play,' while the CEO of an NGO that monitors kids' health chimes in that they already spend too much time in front of screens and not exercising. Do the health experts have a point, or are they just criticizing something they don't understand, or perhaps is not to their taste?"

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  1. Last I checked... by SetupWeasel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the day is still 24 hours. Are three hours of video games more detrimental to their bodies than 6 to 8 hours of school classes?

    1. Re:Last I checked... by spyder913 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      ...or reading? People are too quick to condemn video games.

  2. Re:Lets Do the Math by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    these are teen and pre-teen boys, you left out 3 hours a day for masturbation

    I thought that counted as exercise....