videogames+are+the+cure+to+childhood+obesity

__**Thesis Statements**__ Interactive videogames are the cure for childhood obesity. Are children who play video games all day more prone to obesity than children who are more active? What have been the result of not physically running around had on the increase of childhood obesity? Are the children or the parents to blame? What can be done to get children to be more active? How are parents doing about it?
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In my research for this project I used several different databases and links to the library but I was coming up wiht nothing. I thought that this would be a more popular subject than it is online. But the most success I had out of researching this project was just a plain surface web search. When I put in "interactive video games being the cure for childhood obesity" I got nothing. Then when I just put in "interactive videogames and childhood obesity" I got a much wider variety of results to chose from and alot more help. So my best results were just from the plain old internet.
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media type="youtube" key="sixz1WU14tc?fs=1" height="349" width="425" There is an ad in the UK relating to childhood obesity and videogames and the slogan is “Risk an early death, just do nothing.” Here in the U.S. there are primary health practitioner and physiotherapists who regularly test children and you with injuries and disease that are directly related to a lack of physical activities. There has not been any scientific evidence that the playing of video games cause obesity but it does contribute to it. As long as children are sitting around doing nothing and just eating the more chance they have of gaining weight and having serious health problems in the future. Most people blame the parents of these children for their weight problems. It is believed that the parents are most responsible for their children’s health. Parents are the most influential people in a child’s life and if parents are supplying the child with the kind of games that are keeping them on the couch they are contributing to their lack of physical activity. Now there is a solution to help parents to help their children to become more active with doing something children love to do any way and that’s play video games. Now video games are fighting back in a big way. With the introduction of the Wii, The PlayStation Move and the Xbox 360 Kinect they are getting kids off the couch and getting them to be more active. These video games are also helping families to spend more time together with games invented to involve the whole family. They even have games like You Shape and Zumba to not only get the kids in shape but the parents as well. **__Multimedia Element__** media type="youtube" key="CCQFQ2UtvXU?fs=1" height="349" width="425"
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canadian Physiotherapy Association. __Lack of Physical Activity is Linked to Childhood Obesity__. 09 september 2009. 10 05 2011 . The Canadian Physiotherapy Association argue that due to the inactivity of children that 25% of Canadian children are overweight and that children need at least 90 minutes of physical activity a day. In the article they are very concerned that not enough children meet the minimum requirements of activity to allow them to have a healthy growth pattern. They recommend that the activities should involve at least 30 minutes of walking, running, jumping, dancing or bike riding. They also recommend cutting down the time children sit around and play video games. Gudmundsen, Jinny. __Video Game Tackles Childhood Obesity__. 08 October 2007. 13 May 2011 . In this article Jinny Gudmundsen discuss the new interactive videogame that Kaiser Permanete has called The Incredible Adventures of the Amazing Food Detective. She goes on to talk about how the videogame kids help the detective investigate why kids are living unhealthy. This is one of the first games to try and tackle childhood obesity and get kids off the couch and actively involved in their health and diet. Judith Brisman, Ph. D. __Children with Eating Disorders: Are Parents to Blame__. 10 May 2011. 13 May 2011 . In this article Judith Brisman argues that the blame lies with the parent for any eating disorder that a child may have. She says that parents should be actively and thoughtfully involved in their children’s lives and talk to them about eating disorders.

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