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Pokemon Go Could Add 2.83 Million Years To Users' Lives, Says Study (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNNMoney: A new study from Microsoft Research found that the most interested Pokemon Go players took 26% more steps than before using the app. The largest behavior changes were seen among sedentary users. No matter their gender, age, weight or lifestyle, Pokemon Go users began to move more -- taking an extra 194 steps a day once they started using the app. (That's the equivalent of walking roughly one tenth of a mile.) The researchers estimate that Pokemon Go has added 144 billion steps to U.S. physical activity. That's 143 roundtrips to the moon. The study was published online this month in the Cornell Library University. Since activity reduces mortality risks, the researchers estimated that Pokemon Go could add 2.83 million years to the life expectancy of an assumed 25 million U.S. users. Based off research that showed walking reduces mortality, the researchers calculated that Pokemon Go users who continued to walk an extra 1,000 steps a day would enjoy 41.4 days of additional life expectancy. The Microsoft scientists examined data shared by 31,793 users of Microsoft Band, a wearable device, and Bing, the company's search engine. They compared the movement data from the wearables with users' web search queries. Pokemon Go players were identified by web searches that indicated they were playing the game. The Microsoft team also looked at four of the most popular health apps on Apple and Android devices. They found these apps had little impact on a person's behavior. The activity levels of Pokemon Go users changed far more.
Eat a vegetable-based diet and you'll life a lot longer.
Longer, maybe, but also a whole lot more miserable.
Let's subtract all the people who get shot, mauled or otherwise physically harmed for hunting Pokemon where they shouldn't, along with those smart individuals who become victims of accidents because they wanted to hunt some Pokemon where no smart human would willingly go (like, say, the middle of a busy interstate). How many years older do we then get?
Or is that ok because it only weeds out the ... let's say less viable individuals?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Eat a vegetable-based diet and you'll life a lot longer.
That may not be true, but it will certainly seem that way.
I eat cruelty free meat. I take my animals to bed with me and smother them as they orgasm so they die at the moment of ultimate pleasure.
Important kitchen tip: A salad tastes a whole lot better if you, just before eating it, replace it with a steak.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Doc, how can I live longer?
You drink?
Nope
Smoke?
Nope
Eat red meat?
Nope
Screw around?
Nope
Then why the hell do you want to live longer?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Did the researchers take into account how many Pokemon Go morons walked in front of cars, buses, and other vehicles while playing the game.
I personally saw a Pokemon Go idiot fall down a flight of stairs. She twisted her ankle and injured another innocent bystander.
If you divide the distance walked by the number of days since I started playing... which includes many days where I didn't play, and some where I played 8 hours. ;) :D
Lost 15 lb and slimmed down considerably!
Also met two really cute geek girls who were happy to let me play with their, ahem, pokemon!
Grab them by the pokemon I say!
When Niantic decided that all players with rooted devices were no longer welcome, that pretty much ended the game for me. I was playing it with my spouse, and getting more exercise, but I shouldn't have to jump through yet more hoops to use this product. I'd do just as well reading a book while walking.
Some devices are rooted by default, some by choice. That alone is not an indicator of cheating.
It might be easier to measure how many people died than it would be how many people's lives it saved. Sure we can point fingers at the guy who crashed his car playing pokemon whilst driving; but what about the guy who played pokemon instead of doing some other dumb teen thing. If pokemon kept him from joining a gang and getting shot, for example.
You can't really say "Pokémon" caused X more people to die, because we don't know the net affect. Extra people may have survived because of it.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
I'll simply stay a second order vegetarian. I eat animals that are vegetarian.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Well, there may be a small health benefit to walking 1/10th of a mile. But, interest in the app will fade (HAS faded), and even that little bit of walking will subside. Getting and taking care of a dog will have a person doing a LOT more walking, AND will encourage social interaction... unlike Pokey-Go, which keeps users focused on their devices. I want to see some stats about the rate of Pokey-Go users becoming victims of crime... as the first rule of personal safety in public spaces is to maintain situational awareness, which these players are sorely missing.
The only reason Westerners eat animals is habit, taste or convenience, which is NOT reason enough to kill an animal.
The only reason why we eat animals is because we're omnivores. And eating too much meat is just as bad as eating too many vegetables. Actually eating too many vegetables is in many cases worse, since you lose out on essential things that will keep you alive that you can't get from plants. Though you can get some of them from eating mineral rich dirt.
If you really want to live a long life, you live a balanced life. If you want to die a short life in agony, you go to the extreme at either end. FYI: Heart disease has many factors(from environmental to genetic), the main cause of it in the west is we spend too much time on our asses.
Om, nomnomnom...
Same here. I'm still not sure why the decided to kick out the rooted users. Some people speculated it had to do with cheaters, but there's no way that's the case since most of them were running stock. Ah well, freed up some space on my phone for games developed by better devs.
I liked this vanity card from Chuck Lorre (shown at the end of Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, etc.)
#536
I've thought long and hard about this vanity card. What I'm about to say is going to upset quite a few people. Some of them are my friends. Or perhaps, after reading this, my former friends. But I can't let that stop me from speaking my mind. It's time to say out loud what I know in my heart to be true. Vegetarians and vegans are mobility bigots. They believe that if a life form doesn't move, it's fair game to be killed and eaten. They hold a deep seated prejudice against plants, or, as plants prefer to be called, "We Who Stand Still." This hateful philosophy is predicated on the idea that movement equals consciousness, or, if you will, a certain level of sacredness. To put it simply, if it walks, flies, or swims, or comes from something that does, it should not be ingested. If it doesn't, yum-yum. Of course when you ask vegetarians and vegans, they say no, they're only opposed to eating flesh. But what could be more fleshy than a mushroom? Or avocado? Or eggplant? The ugly truth is they are cowards who murder and devour anything that can't run away. These people, who act so high and mighty, so spiritually elevated, have somehow constructed a style of cuisine that would justify them eating my Uncle Murray, a man known for sitting still for hours at a time, staring at a TV that is turned off. So the next time you order a salad consider this: Prince told us that doves cry. But what if kale does too?
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
So playing Pokemon Go encourages people to walk more than a fitness monitoring band... and so these are useless ...?
Well you might notice that, after this research was announced, Microsoft quietly discontinued production of the Microsoft Band.
#DeleteChrome
Researchers estimate that Pokemon Go players have wasted 2.83 million years of their lives playing the game.....
love is just extroverted narcissism
If you want to die a short life in agony, you go to the extreme at either end.
I worked with this girl who was, in my opinion, running herself to death. She has bad knees and feet anyway, and she was constantly training for marathons and 5Ks. She would come into work in pain so many times that I lost count. She is young, mid 30s, looks great, and is in great cardio-pulmonary shape, but her frame is breaking down. I asked her if it was worth being this "healthy" now and being a trainwreck when she is in her 60s. She said it was worth it.
I'll just try to, like you said, stick to a balanced life with diet and exercise. I may not look as good as she does now, but I'll catch up when I'm older.