Well I can certainly agree with him that you should take breaks and go outside. I'm personally trying to do just that.
I propose we have ninjas and bears wander around. That would make things more interesting and promote fitness. Nothing like running from a bear to get the heart pumping.shadowstriker86 said:if you want ppl to stop playing video games to go outside and play, you need the outside TO BE MORE INTERESTING!
And again, to those of you saying "What about TV?" "What about fast food?" "What about the internet?", he's just using the easy example, to list everything we do that's unhealthy would take a very long time. Also, he's saying not that it's horrible, reading a book is just as sedentary, if not moreso, he's just saying we should do less of it and be more active."That starts with each of us taking more responsibility for our health and the health of our children," he said. "It means quitting smoking, going in for that mammogram or colon cancer screening. It means going for a run or hitting the gym, and raising our children to step away from the video games and spend more time playing outside."
I think he's me....My lowest grade is in language arts....still an A...but my lowest AA random person said:Are you me?Ginnipe said:Underacheivment, really, I'm a big videogamer and yet I'm one of the smartest students in my entire class. I think ratinaly, I get high grades (except in language arts, but I dont care that a form can fit meaning or that I need to write 3rd person instead of 1st) and I acually understand why many people do things, including why us gamers play videogames.
Tastiest death ever?Propagandasaurus said:Actually, little known fact, but everyone that has ever eaten meat has been dead within a hundred years. True.Nurb said:Same with the whole 'meat is unhealthy for you' BS from those pretentious veggie/vegan idiots. No it's not, OVER EATING on meat is what's unhealthy.
It's because beef is filled with little worms that squirm down your throat and piss in your liver.
Dear God. There's another person who doesn't support national health care. Welcome to the fold, my good friend.j0z said: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)
Are you kidding me? Did you even read what he said or did you just read the title and skim through? He didn't even mention anything you listed, he simply stated "stop playing video games for a sec and get outside", how the hell is that implying that "playing video games make you fat"?Haydyn said:Yes, because we all know that over-eating fat kids who watch Tv all day are fat because of video games... It's amazing how President Obama has the opposite beliefs than me on every issue he's brought up that I can remember.
1: Playing video games doesn't make you fat. It just doesn't keep you in shape.
2: Over-eating makes you fat, yet even though America is in a depression, we are still buying and consuming too much food.
3: Playing video games doesn't mean you don't get excercise. Blaming video games for being fat is like blaming the cat for taking the last donut. It didn't take the donut, and it's not going to buy any more donuts. Video games are not good or bad for your weight.
4: Food is already becoming more and more healthy in the weight department. Half of our food is either low fat, reduced fat, or no fat. Because of this, ever since I started working out just an hour or less a day, I lost 30 friggin pounds. None of my jeans fit anymore. Now, I've actually had to cut back on excercise, and I force myself to eat more than I want, and that's only to stay at my current weight. And I play about 5-8 hours of video games on a daily basis.
5: Some video games can even teach people the advantages of being skinny. In Fable 2, the fatter you get, the lower your attractiveness is. In fact, most main characters in video games are fit, so if we are playing the lives of fit people, why would we getting fatter? We play video games to play a hypothetical situation that would be ideal for enjoyment, and in these situations, we are fit. If anything, video games could help get and keep people fit if we were to use them right.
This is just propaganda against video games. Why don't people stop blaming other things for their own weight problem. I say, if a man has an Xbox360 controller in his hands, he has no free hands to eat that 3rd piece of cake today.
Freakout456 said:Really just shut up Obama you aren't getting me to stop playing games. I mean you know what else causes kids to be unhealthly ummm everything else....I mean this comes from I guy who is known to have a problem smoking seriously don't believe him.
Also he says it makes kids stupid....it really doesn't some of the smartest kids I know (myself included) play lots of videogames.
Where can I get that game? Oh, Rob, will the hilarity ever end?SirSchmoopy said:Just as much as television or facebook/twitter. I understand his point but the idea of going outside and playing hopscotch just isn't as cool as playing EA's HOP SCOTCH CHAMPION 09.