{"id":540,"date":"2008-09-01T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=540"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:44:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:44:30","slug":"active-video-games-against-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Active Video Games Against Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_GC-Jzmwe958\/SLXJFYFHwRI\/AAAAAAAAAD0\/_JHCSfSLCU4\/s1600-h\/jmat.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239314835715899666\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_GC-Jzmwe958\/SLXJFYFHwRI\/AAAAAAAAAD0\/_JHCSfSLCU4\/s320\/jmat.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Children burn more than four times as many calories per minute playing an active video game than playing a seated game, and their heart rate is also significantly higher with the active game, according to a new report in the September issue of Archives of Pediatrics &amp; Adolescent Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The gaming industry has begun producing active \u201cextertainment\u201d gaming systems. \u201cA recent active gaming concept that allows players to experience various activities (e.g., bowling, fishing, tennis, golf) in a virtual world is the XaviX gaming system. \u201cIn addition to the exercise gaming modalities, the XaviX system includes a <em>gaming mat<\/em> that allows participants to travel the streets of Hong Kong at a walk or a run, avoiding obstacles and stamping out ninjas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at University of Hong Kong measured heart rate and calorie expenditure in 18 children age 6 to 12 during a 25-minute gaming protocol. Participants rested for five minutes, then played a seated computer bowling game, an active bowling game and the action\/running game for five minutes each, with five minutes of rest between active games.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with resting, children burned 98 percent more playing active bowling and 451 percent more during the action\/running game. \u201cThis translates into a more than four-fold increase in energy expenditure for the <em>gaming mat<\/em>. Preventing weight gain requires an energy adjustment of approximately 150 kilocalories per day. The four-fold increase in energy expenditure when playing on the <em>gaming mat<\/em> would fill the proposed energy gap, if this game were played for 35 minutes a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children burn more than four times as many calories per minute playing an active video game than playing a seated game, and their heart rate is also significantly higher with the active game, according to a new report in the September issue of Archives of Pediatrics &amp; Adolescent Medicine. The gaming industry has begun producing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}