Better eating habits through gaming
Can gaming teach us healthier ways to eat? Nonsense! A recent Electronic Arts study concluded that commercial games can be effective teaching tools in the classroom. Last week, researchers at the University of Sydney found that automated dietary advice, similar to Amazon recommendations, reduced the amount of saturated fats in the goods purchased by the participants.
The two studies are not necessarily mutually exclusive: imagine a 3D platformer where your enemies all shared a common thread of containing copious amounts of high fructose corn syrup. Would you subconscious start avoiding foods that contain HFCS, or at least check the nutrition labels?
Yoshi's Fruit Cake?Veggie Burger Time?Scrumdiddly-umptious.
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Read - New tool helps online shoppers buy lower-fat food [Reuters, via Geek.com]
Read - Video games have 'role in school' [BBC News]
