Obese people tend to play more video games than non-obese people, especially children. However, experts do not believe that video games directly cause obesity. A study found that obese children spent more time playing video games and watching TV, but also participated in other activities to lose weight. Video games may be a hobby that obese people enjoy more than thinner people.
Video games and obesity may be linked because obese people tend to spend more time playing video games than non-obese people. Studies have shown that these findings seem to apply especially to children. Even though video games and obesity are somehow related, experts generally don’t believe that video games directly cause obesity. People who regularly watch television but don’t play video games are usually not as overweight as people who spend most of their time playing video games. Some experts believe that obese people may play video games more often because they are not as socially active as people who are not obese, and that playing video games does not directly cause obesity.
Many parents who have obese children often worry that their children might be playing video games on a regular basis and parents tend to believe that the activity of video games is causing or worsening their children’s obesity levels. For a long time, most people believed that both watching television and playing video games contributed to obesity because both are sedentary activities. Obese people would likely benefit from spending some time away from the television if they’re in front of it too often, but gaming isn’t necessarily the root cause of obesity. Studies have suggested that video games and obesity are related because playing video games is an activity that many obese people enjoy participating in.
A study conducted by the University of Texas at Austin followed the gaming and television habits of 3,000 children up to age 12, as well as their overall activity levels. According to the study, thinner children watched television as much as obese children, but in most cases they didn’t play video games as often, although there were some thinner children in the study who played video games excessively. The study found that the vast majority of obese children spent a lot of time playing video games and watching television. The obese children in the study weren’t completely inactive and spent time participating in other activities, such as sports or other exercise, in an effort to lose weight.
The final conclusion of the study of video games and obesity was that there was no link between weight and activity levels among study participants because obese children did things besides watch television and play video games to lose weight. According to the study, video game participation is more likely to be a side effect of obesity rather than a cause. More research may be needed, but it could be possible that video games and obesity are linked because video games are a hob that obese people seem to enjoy more than thinner people.
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