Videogames Make You Fat

[Durgiun]

Want to be healthy and/or sexy? Work out. What? You're too lazy to do so? Then fuck you!

 

[Marter]

I play games/sit in front of computer/watch TV for most of my time at home. I'm always being told I'm underweight. I think it is these activities combined with unhealthy food that really harms people's waist size/

 

[iLikeHippos]

The very first line of my original post was, "More specifically, sitting in front of a computer/television screen all day makes you fat."

So after reading the responses that many of you posted, I have to wonder if most of you actually read my original post. If you did, you probably would've correctly guessed that I was only joking.

I am just like you (or how you claim to be). I sit in front of screens all day, often while eating unhealthy foods, yet I am not at all overweight. I could be healthier and more physically fit, I just lack the motivation to do anything about it. I was just annoyed by a recent article I read, so I thought I would satirize it and the hundreds of similar articles out there in the internets. (ref: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63Q5RJ20100427?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews )

Just sitting still won't contribute to the amount of fat in your body. But if you eat unhealthy and don't do shit about counter-measuring it like a balance, than you might get fat.

In fact, if you sit still, you DO indeed burn fat. At least, that's what I am taught in school.

What's the upside?
You're training your brain capacity by doing these "anti-social" activities.

True, by simply being alive you are in fact burning calories. But don't you think you'd burn them faster by moving more appendages than just your thumbs? And what exactly are you training your brain for? I'm confuse.

I can imagine quote messages will come back at you in giant loads (to think of all those account names), so I won't spoil this quote to annoyance.

About the "very first line of your original post", if I knew of that link, I'd have gotten the joke.
A bit.
Sort of.
Maybe.
(Because those blue link letters make me laugh so hard hah-ha)
But else, I didn't have a greater chance of knowing it :/

Also, I don't know either what the brain is actually trained in. I just heard it from another thread that games increases your intelligence.
However, they failed, like me, to mention the specific area/s of the brain. Even the link they had.

Happy quote responding to the others. I know it'll take awhile

 

[Sonicron]

This just in: The sun is bright, rain is wet and human beings require oxygen to survive.

Source please, Unless you provide some evidence for those insane claims then noones going to believe you. Now if you dont mind i'm going to go back to breathing potassium like a normal person.

Fine then! More oxygen for me!
I might sound crazy, but one day you'll see. YOU'LL ALL SEE!

 

[Viciousmf]

good thing my give a fuck left the room cuase then i might have cared about being a Large Man AND playing video games

 

[Mr. Bojangles]

I feel guilty cause I'm eatin' InstaNoodles while readin' this.

 

[Jared Veeser-Lynn]

It's not playing the videogames that makes you fat, its what you do while playing that makes you fat, eating Mc Donalds while screaming at the 13 year olds online is not good for your weight (or social life).

 

[shirin238]

But what if I try to break the speed record while cycling to the Kentucky MacBurgerKing?

 

[Soxafloppin]

Not if you exercise and eat healthy along with it.

 

[twaddle]

sitting on your ass makes you fat, some wii games tend to make you look stupid (not that stupid), ddr will make you look stupid but it will be a good time and you will loose about 20 lbs in 1 month if you do it on hard mode every day until you get it right

 

[omega 616]

Not really, what made everyone fat was continuing to eat the high calorie foods like burgers that where made so that people building houses and working on farms could have all the energy they needed.

Now we eat all the same foods but the life style has changed completely.

Props on the mad /thread skills.

On topic. This. I watched a programme about Steven Fry driving round America, he went into a café and had a tradition meal for miners or something, it was choc full of collieries and fat to keep them going.

The problem is there still serving it to people who sit at a computer, walk to the car, drive home, walk into the house then sit down to watch tv, then walk to bed and wake up to do it all again.

I wants to know were the discussion value is, just seems like a mini rant to me.

Although complaining that sitting in front of a computer makes you fat, while sitting at a typing it is a little funny.

 

[Srdjan]

Videogames didn't made you fat, you are just looking for someone to blame for your own lazyness, if you were exercising and eating right you could play as much as you want. I'm sick of people looking for scapegoats, McDonalds made me fat, cigarettes made me cough, weed made me stupid, you did all of that, McDonalds didn't forced you to it in it. Videogames didn't made you play them. It's just you and once when you except it you can change to better.

 

[Valkyira]

Playing video games does not make you fat. Eating unhealthy things while playing games makes you fat.

 

[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.

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

I've taken it off now.

It's ok, thank you for modifying the post.

 

[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.

I've seen that movie and it's stupid. What's the sequel gonna be like? Eating only chocolate for every meal for 2 weeks? Or how about eating only potatoes?

There's a thing called a "well balanced diet". McDonald's cannot provide this thing. If you believe it can then you are a special person.

I don't believe anything I said even implied I thought McDonald's was a balanced diet. But you said "get more exercise before considering drastic changes in diet and lifestyle." I'm telling you that just getting exercise isn't nearly enough on its own. You'll be more fit, yeah, but any issues arising from consuming junk food (clogged arteries, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes) are still going to be there and getting worse.

I mean, you even just now went back on what you said about the importance of exercise, so you could stress the importance of a "balanced diet." For some people, a balanced diet would be a drastic lifestyle change-exactly what you advocated against in favor of exercise! You also went out of your way to ignore my point about how most health information around today suggests that many factors are important to fitness and wellness.

In short, I found your reply short, rude and unsatisfying. Sort of like visiting the DMV, but without the option to purchase myself a personalized plate claiming I like Keeshonds.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Yes its video games & inactivity not the fact that food has more additives than components.

Things youd expect to find in Breaded Clams for example.

http://twitpic.com/1j3w8c

Yes, exactly. Lack of exercise is bad, but it's just amazing what's in so many foods. Without trying (without putting any on my food), I bet I could hit the upper limit for %dv on sodium easily. I mean, one day I ate chinese take-out and measured my sodium intake, and I was FIVE TIMES over the upper maximum. So be warned, those who like chinese food.

Videogames didn't made you fat, you are just looking for someone to blame for your own lazyness, if you were exercising and eating right you could play as much as you want. I'm sick of people looking for scapegoats, McDonalds made me fat, cigarettes made me cough, weed made me stupid, you did all of that, McDonalds didn't forced you to it in it. Videogames didn't made you play them. It's just you and once when you except it you can change to better.

Very true, although I would point out that like TV, video games will encourage you to seek out "convenience" foods so you don't have to take a break from playing. And these convenience food are almost always going to be extremely unhealthy. So until somebody becomes aware of how bad this stuff is for his/her body, it's going to be hard to avoid creating some bad habits.

Again, we can blame the individual, but take some time to learn about how big food businesses work in America and you might find there's some blame to spread over there, too.

 

[Brad Shepard]

I disprove this up, down, and left, but not right...

anyway, ive been a gamer sense i was 3, and im only 119 pounds or so, and im gong on 20, so suck it logic!

 

[sheogoraththemad]

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!

I have the same awesome feature in my body like this guy,

 

[blankedboy]

O rly?

I'm a 'hardcore'(by some definitions) gamer, and just got back hot and sweaty from a 2-hour squash practice.

Bull.
Fucking.
Shit.

 

[Dexiro]

Videogames are a symptom of being fat, not the cause.