http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/ Engadget Comments for Shocking study reveals that activity in gaming fights obesity http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/Jan 5th 2007 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/Jan 6th 2007 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/Jan 5th 2007 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/Jan 5th 2007 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/
Literal cake? No, you probably just meant that it takes the cake, figuratively.

Literally taking the cake would be if they slapped the chocolate cake out of the mouths of the study's participants.

Dimitri]]>Jan 5th 2007 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/Jan 5th 2007 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/Jan 5th 2007 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/Jan 5th 2007 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/Jan 5th 2007 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/
Personally, I, for one, welcome engadgets sarcasm (with or without the sympathy)]]>Jan 6th 2007 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/
The study has essentially confirmed "activities that require more energy to perform burn more calories." Well, duh.

Where the formal study might actually be useful is in quantifying it. But I'm sure every electronic calorie counter fitted to a treadmill actually has this information already.]]>Jan 5th 2007 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/Jan 5th 2007 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/Jan 5th 2007 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/
Oh the joy of science. :D]]>Jan 5th 2007 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/Actually, according to another 'scientific' study, playing a game for a few hours can equate to jogging for an hour, apparently. The prelim study was featured in an article of UK PCGamer last year (I subscribe to it). In it, it says playing FPS games (I remember UT2004 was mentioned) is good for you... They measured the participants' physical signs, of which I can't remember what they were.

Just wanted to point that out, and yeah, this 'scientific' study is a waste of time and money.]]>Jan 5th 2007 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/Jan 5th 2007 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/Jan 5th 2007 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/Jan 5th 2007 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/
Seriously, I think the interesting part of the study is in quantifying the amount of energy expended. Sure, we spend more energy... but how much? Did you know that the brain, yes the brain, is the greatest consumer of energy in the human body?]]>Jan 6th 2007 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/Feb 10th 2007 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/shocking-study-reveals-that-activity-in-gaming-fights-obesity/
And responding to whoever said that you can just look at a treadmill calorie counter and get the same information: Those things are just very, very rough estimates--and how do you think they come up with those estimates?! By doing research on how much energy is expended doing various activities (i.e. "rubbish" like this study).]]>Feb 10th 2007 3:00PM