President Obama Links Videogames to Unhealthy Kids

[JenXXXJen]

There's certainly more truth to that than the typical, "Halo makes people violent" and all that shizzle. The same can be said for TV, games are just the new popular thing.

 

[Outamyhead]

And hanging out at a Starbucks surfing the net and drinking sugar infused (so called) coffees is good for you?....I think not.

If I had kids they would probably be on a bike riding around, it's what I did when i was a kid, running around and getting knackered was not on my list of fun stuff to do, getting knackered but being able to get home still was okay, that's why I liked bicycling everywhere and would probably do 10+ miles without even realizing it.

The video games, console and PC gaming industry is the current spawn of the devil, just like TV, violent movies, music, and the radio of the past. Can we move onto something else like oh I don't know, how about blaming the parents/guardians for lack of responsibility with their child/children's well being?

 

[data_not_found]

His point is completely erroneous. The japanese play WAY more video games than americans do as far as man hours go, and they have 1/10th our obesity rate. The problem is the fact that we are willing to be hedonists with our bodies and jam ourselves full of fatty foods and never work them off.

 

[Cerebreus]

You see, when a government takes control of the healthcare system, they can do stuff like this, because it is them paying for your medical bills, so they have the right to regulae activities they think might be "harmful" to the population. Government healthcare is such a slippery slope, and we Americans must stop this before it gets out of hand.
I probably just made a few enemies in these forums, but hey, we still have freedom of speech right? (well, at least until that is deemed hazardous to the public's health)

That's why some people are against a single payer plan.

Some people think a public option for healthcare will get rid of the private option. And if you say that's fear tactics, consider this: that's the argument being made by some people who are FOR a public option.

 

[IamQ]

Everything that obama mentioned has been said before.

 

[GrinningManiac]

I play videogames on a regular basis, daily and frequently.

I also climb mountains, and I'm off to Peru this summer on a trekking expedition + holiday + Charity work.

I'm not the fittest kid around, but I'm healthy, don't smoke, eat my greens and I actually don't like the taste of much alcohol. I'm not saying this out of an elitist snobbery, but to point out that the people who get fat on videogames (and, granted, other stuff he mentioned) are not lazy because they play videogames, but play videgames because they're lazy

 

[KeyMaster45]

Must....resist....genetically southern racist predisposition....... I VOTED FOR YOU AND NOW YOU TURN ON ME!! *sobs in corner*
[small](That's a lie, I didn't vote for him)[/small]

Don't give into the dark side Obama, I know its shiny and they have cookies but Jack Thompson will only destroy you[/small]


*sniff* I need a hug....

 

[The Political Gamer]

On the upside he did not go all Jack Thompson on us and call for the banning of all games that have over an E rating. However, he did say we need to play less and that is true as much as I hate to admit it.

 

[pirateninj4]

Parents are lazy too, I remember my parents going out to play with me and my little brother a lot of the time, teaching us how to do basic outdoors stuff. I doubt you'd see that much anymore.

 

[Rafe]

Uh.. how could Saint Obama do this to us, well anyway I enjoy the outdoors

 

[Silva]

This isn't news. Obama has mentioned videogames on these terms in his speeches before.

And he's absolutely correct. Not that it isn't an obvious point. Of course this doesn't make him anti-videogames. Rather, he's pointing out that people are sacrificing outside time for videogame time, and that for children particularly this is dangerous to health as it creates bad habits.

What he says is probably true.

More importantly, however, why is this any of the president's business?

It's his business because obesity is statistically America's number one health risk. And that's saying something, considering how serious a condition health is in over there.

It ISN'T an epidemic. Actually, anyone that claims it is needs to see the movie Fat Head. It shows the facts behind the so called epidemic and WHY so many people are getting fatter. It also shows how Spurlock is nothing but a liar.

I didn't call it an epidemic! I said it was America's number one health risk. And that's a commonly cited fact. Google it, or better yet use a scholarly search engine, and you'll find plenty of professors of medicine who agree.

 

[Avashnea]

This isn't news. Obama has mentioned videogames on these terms in his speeches before.

And he's absolutely correct. Not that it isn't an obvious point. Of course this doesn't make him anti-videogames. Rather, he's pointing out that people are sacrificing outside time for videogame time, and that for children particularly this is dangerous to health as it creates bad habits.

What he says is probably true.

More importantly, however, why is this any of the president's business?

It's his business because obesity is statistically America's number one health risk. And that's saying something, considering how serious a condition health is in over there.

It ISN'T an epidemic. Actually, anyone that claims it is needs to see the movie Fat Head. It shows the facts behind the so called epidemic and WHY so many people are getting fatter. It also shows how Spurlock is nothing but a liar.

I didn't call it an epidemic! I said it was America's number one health risk. And that's a commonly cited fact. Google it, or better yet use a scholarly search engine, and you'll find plenty of professors of medicine who agree.

They also agree that saturated fat is bad and grains are good. Neither of those two beliefs are true either. Obesity is just a symptom of the TRUE health risks, blood sugar and other metabolic disorders CAUSED by the anti-fat/ pro-grain /non-science based diet that the government tells people to eat.

 

[Silva]

This isn't news. Obama has mentioned videogames on these terms in his speeches before.

And he's absolutely correct. Not that it isn't an obvious point. Of course this doesn't make him anti-videogames. Rather, he's pointing out that people are sacrificing outside time for videogame time, and that for children particularly this is dangerous to health as it creates bad habits.

What he says is probably true.

More importantly, however, why is this any of the president's business?

It's his business because obesity is statistically America's number one health risk. And that's saying something, considering how serious a condition health is in over there.

It ISN'T an epidemic. Actually, anyone that claims it is needs to see the movie Fat Head. It shows the facts behind the so called epidemic and WHY so many people are getting fatter. It also shows how Spurlock is nothing but a liar.

I didn't call it an epidemic! I said it was America's number one health risk. And that's a commonly cited fact. Google it, or better yet use a scholarly search engine, and you'll find plenty of professors of medicine who agree.

They also agree that saturated fat is bad and grains are good. Neither of those two beliefs are true either. Obesity is just a symptom of the TRUE health risks, blood sugar and other metabolic disorders CAUSED by the anti-fat/ pro-grain /non-science based diet that the government tells people to eat.

So you presume to know more than professors of medicine? Very well.

But I see your argument as fairly semantical in basis. Whether or not obesity is a "symptom" (I would argue that it obviously causes problems itself), the reasons for it are still risks for themselves. Mass obesity, if nothing else, gives us a (big) clue to such problems. And as such, if obesity disappeared then the causes would have to have. However, I would argue that the sedentary lifestyle of most Americans contributes just as much as diet.

On the diet front itself, I would say that you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who agrees that saturated fat is desirable in any diet. If you want to eat McDonald's and call it healthy, go ahead. But I'm still not going there. On the other hand, too many grains is indeed also fattening. The real imbalance in the typical Western diet is a bias against vegetables and fruit, or so I would think.

Finally, where does the US government "tell people to eat" such a diet? Sounds like hearsay to me.

 

[Razorback0z]

At almost 44 years old I feel increasingly priveledged to have grown up in a world laregly free from the interference of Government in the minute details of our lives (mine in particular).

I really do feel for you teenagers and younger, by the time you are adults, being an adult will just be measured by age. Your ability to choose your path in life, positively or negatively will have mostly been removed from your resposnibility.

The more we allow our Governments to intrude in our lives at the same time as we allow them to abrogate their responsibilities to us in the areas of responsbile financial and envieronmental management, defence, health education, policing, roads etc, (the things we put them there for). The more we have ourselves to blame that you cant find a cop or get a hospital bed, but the feds are kicking your door in over a book or a DVD or the fact that your kids prefer PS3 to being beaten up in the local park...

Dear Mr. Obama, focus your attention on your 20 Trillion dollar national debt, leave my kids play time to me and them.

Sincerey....

A citizen concerned that you are clueless...

 

[Avashnea]

This isn't news. Obama has mentioned videogames on these terms in his speeches before.

And he's absolutely correct. Not that it isn't an obvious point. Of course this doesn't make him anti-videogames. Rather, he's pointing out that people are sacrificing outside time for videogame time, and that for children particularly this is dangerous to health as it creates bad habits.

What he says is probably true.

More importantly, however, why is this any of the president's business?

It's his business because obesity is statistically America's number one health risk. And that's saying something, considering how serious a condition health is in over there.

It ISN'T an epidemic. Actually, anyone that claims it is needs to see the movie Fat Head. It shows the facts behind the so called epidemic and WHY so many people are getting fatter. It also shows how Spurlock is nothing but a liar.

I didn't call it an epidemic! I said it was America's number one health risk. And that's a commonly cited fact. Google it, or better yet use a scholarly search engine, and you'll find plenty of professors of medicine who agree.

They also agree that saturated fat is bad and grains are good. Neither of those two beliefs are true either. Obesity is just a symptom of the TRUE health risks, blood sugar and other metabolic disorders CAUSED by the anti-fat/ pro-grain /non-science based diet that the government tells people to eat.

So you presume to know more than professors of medicine? Very well.

But I see your argument as fairly semantical in basis. Whether or not obesity is a "symptom" (I would argue that it obviously causes problems itself), the reasons for it are still risks for themselves. Mass obesity, if nothing else, gives us a (big) clue to such problems. And as such, if obesity disappeared then the causes would have to have. However, I would argue that the sedentary lifestyle of most Americans contributes just as much as diet.

On the diet front itself, I would say that you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who agrees that saturated fat is desirable in any diet. If you want to eat McDonald's and call it healthy, go ahead. But I'm still not going there. On the other hand, too many grains is indeed also fattening. The real imbalance in the typical Western diet is a bias against vegetables and fruit, or so I would think.

Finally, where does the US government "tell people to eat" such a diet? Sounds like hearsay to me.

Not me, but a growing group of doctors and scientists. Saturated fat never was proven to be bad for health, but HAS been proven to be a vital nutrient for the body. All the lies about animal fats and tropical oils were made up of whole cloth by the vegetable oil producers, who wanted to sell their unhealthy oils, which are linked to cancer.
A diet low in fat and high in carbs causes not only obesity, but also depression and aggression in humans.
And 'telling people what to eat' comes into play in school lunches, WIC and what they teach diabetics and overweight people as being healthy.
Watch the movie Fat Head. It shows, with ACTUAL scientific facts, how the 'saturated fats are bad and grains are good' dogma started without EVER being proven by scientific research and how studies are ignored when they show the opposite. Scientists that opposed the pyramid and lowfat plan with actual FACTS were ostracized and lost all their funding.

 

[Avashnea]

And in any case, the guy is just trying to look good in front of everyone - and I can understand that, he's the first fucking black president, if he fails, the media won't quit biting his ass for a long time.

It has NOTHING to do with him being black. It has EVERYTHING to do with him being incompetent and destroying the country.