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Video game usage and excess weight (view source)
Revision as of 18:48, May 10, 2016
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The ''Pittsburg Gazette'' reports: "A 2010 study from the Eastern Ontario Research Institute found video games to blame, chiefly because children, boys especially, tend to eat more when they're playing them."<ref>[TV, video games linked to obesity], Pittsburg Gazette</ref>
The ''Pittsburg Gazette'' reports: "A 2010 study from the Eastern Ontario Research Institute found video games to blame, chiefly because children, boys especially, tend to eat more when they're playing them."<ref>[TV, video games linked to obesity], Pittsburg Gazette</ref>
== Irreligion, video game usage and obesity ==
''See also:'' [[Irreligion, video game usage and obesity]]
''Relevant Magazine'' reported in a story about the journal article in ''The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion'' entitled ''No Other Gods Before Mario?: Game Preferences Among [[Atheism|Atheistic]] and Religious Individuals'':
{{Cquote|[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10508619.2011.638606 A new study] of 228 college students found that while just about everyone prefers video games to regular board games (duh), those who claim no religion vastly prefer video games compared to the religious peers. It's a small study, but the director, Chris Burris, has an interesting hypothesis about why [[Atheism|atheists]] prefer video games. Burris believes that atheists tend to be less good at "generating emotionally evocative internal simulations of experience." Simply put, he believes that religious people tend to be more imaginative, and are able to craft their own sense of play around simple games, while non-religious people tend to prefer the concrete rules afforded by video games.<ref>[http://www.relevantmagazine.com/slices/why-do-atheists-video-games-more-religious-people-do Why Do Atheists Like Video Games More Than Religious People Do?
Read more at http://www.relevantmagazine.com/slices/why-do-atheists-video-games-more-religious-people-do#IRuLkxjWFS3Pgdqb.99]</ref>}}
See also: [[Atheism and emotional/intrapersonal intelligence]]
As far as the relationship between irreligion and obesity, please examine the articles below:
*[[Atheism and obesity]]
*[[Millennials, irreligion and obesity]]
*[[Generation X, irreligion and obesity]]
*[[Baby boom generation, irreligion and obesity]]
*[[Secular Europe and obesity]]
*[[China and obesity]]
=== Atheist Stephen Fry on video gaming ===
The [[Atheism|atheist]] [[Stephen Fry]] said, "I do enjoy video gaming... In the early days of games, I would spends hours. I mean literally. I would find it would be 4am and I would say God I have be at work at 6."<ref>[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xeuj29_stephen-fry-talks-gaming_news Stephen Fry talks gaming]</ref>
== Exergaming ==
== Exergaming ==