Videogames Make You Fat

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

That would be an interesting way of putting it, if it were right. People are fat because they eat to much unhealthy fatty foods, THEN go sit in front of the TV for hours. If one were to only eat healthy foods and only the right amount of calories, they would never get fat. Sure they wouldn't be physically strong or fit. They wouldn't be fat though.

People are fat because they like to eat McDonalds, Hungry Jacks (Burger King) and KFC for their 3 meals a day because a) they're lazy b) they're fat or c) they actually believe that all these "healthy choices" crap now at maccas is actually a good substitute for real food.

Anyone who would like to blame the prominence of television and video games in society for the obesity epidemic in Western nations clearly likes their Big Mac to much...

 

[SimuLord]

Video games don't make me fat (and technically speaking, at 5'11 and 180 I'm only "borderline overweight", so they haven't even done that much.)

It's my deep, abiding love of eating nachos and drinking Mountain Dew when playing Total War games that means the difference between my youthful 160-pound middleweight boxer physique from times long past and the thirtysomething doughboy I've become. And I'm not about to stop liking nachos and Mountain Dew!

 

[darkmushroomm]

I try to do a bit of exercise as well as playing videogames, but I do have quite a high metabolism, so i am quite thin.

 

[dietpeachsnapple]

Back before videogames, we had games like hoop & stick

Take it away Kevin Butler!

I must say i've become fatter as I've gorged on video games and beer, my hedonistic lifestyle has ruined my figure, before I was a magnificient specimen but an operation left me indoors for 6 months, I think I need to sort that out.

I mean no great offense... but embedding a video that plays AUTOMATICALLY when you go to the forum page is a really quick way to aggravate your fellow forum users.

Please, for the love of all that is good... don't do that anymore.

 

[Slick Samurai]

The inquiry of the relation between video games and obesity have been risen multiple times. Particularly in occurrences that involve non-gamers in media or select parts of the internet. Connections have been established, and myths have been debunked.

My opinion, however, stands firmly that video games to not cause one's loss of self control in their diet and nutrition. In my perspective (that of which as a gamer) video games oft require players to be seated. Obvious aside, the player is much more relaxed, prone to eating more or easier to eat foods and beverages.

"But Slick Samurai," you might ask, "I thought you said that video games don't lead to obesity." I still stand by my opinion; just because the seated player is eating more or the consumption of fattier foods, doesn't mean video games are the culprit.

Most people of this generation and the last are often found sitting down, video games or not. While this is a very simple concept and an obvious one, some media outlets have difficulty in realizing or accepting it. In watching TV or browsing the Internet, the user can become just as lazy as playing video games.

And when you're ready to lose that badonka donk, you can go hunting for your food.... in Alaska... With a shoe.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Iron Criterion]

Nowadays with our newfangled technology we're progressively more glued to the screen. We work in front of a screen, we play in front of a screen, and some (many) of us even make love in front of a screen.

Oh the irony of you sat in front of a computer using a forum to complain that people are spending too much time on computers.

 

[JEBWrench]

So all those people who wile away the long hours nose-deep in the pages of a book we, what, don't exist or something?

Don't we all read by running around our houses at top speed while staring at the pages?

Fuck it, i'm going to give it a try for science.

i dont recommend it. walls hurt but now i have a whole page of dialouge tattooed to my face from the wall i crashed into whilst reading. so swings and roundabouts

*ponder*

I think, if my reasoning is correct, your dialogue tattoo should be in mirror-writing. Now you can read with a mirror!

 

[ShadowsofHope]

No, a lack of exercise and nutritious foods is the cause of "fatness" in gamers. And not all of them, at that. Some of us are very healthy in our daily activities, and game profusely. You have to have both.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

It does? I play video games all the time, and I think I've lost weight. If I haven't, I'm definitely not fat. My metabolism is awesome!

[sub] Although this may in part to doing martial arts as well..... [/sub]

 

[Zhukov]

Wait... people make love in front of screens?

 

[KenzS]

Video Games do not make you fat, but they can come with the lifestyle.

I game obsessively, and I'm in great shape. Why? Because I eat 4 meals a day and exercise 3 days a week.

Gaming is a poor excuse for your shape.

 

[conzan]

I'm 6ft 4 and I'm pretty big but not extremity over weight and I do just sit in front of the TV all day but I also eat basically nothing because I have trained myself not to get hungry and I'm not skinny but I'm not fat I have been this build all my life and that's how it will stay even if I do exercise (which I did for like a year I went running everyday) nothing changes so I went fuck it because nothing seems to work I don't get fatter or skinnier so once again fuck it.

 

[ottenni]

Indirectly yes. Sitting around for extended periods of time causes a gain in % body fat, and videogames quite easily cause people to do this.

Ultimately it comes down to the person in question. Some people have no problem balancing their time spent exercising and time spent sitting around, and some people have over the top metabolism's and may even benefit from eating more (healthy foods of course).

 

[DigitalSushi]

Back before videogames, we had games like hoop & stick

Take it away Kevin Butler!

I must say i've become fatter as I've gorged on video games and beer, my hedonistic lifestyle has ruined my figure, before I was a magnificient specimen but an operation left me indoors for 6 months, I think I need to sort that out.

I mean no great offense... but embedding a video that plays AUTOMATICALLY when you go to the forum page is a really quick way to aggravate your fellow forum users.

Please, for the love of all that is good... don't do that anymore.

Fuck me your right, that is annoying, in my defense I didn't know that video auto loaded.

I've taken it off now.

 

[KenzS]

Most people I know who game are actually underweight too, because they hardly eat and sleep.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Supersize Me (as well as pretty much all health information ever) suggests that there's a LOT more to being thin and healthy than simply getting enough exercise.