Youth movement: Childhood obesity study uses video games

 
By Heather Warlick
Published: February 12, 2008

When fifth-graders from Coolidge Elementary play video games at school, their teachers don't complain, they don't get detention and their parents are not notified. The students are taking part in a scientific study.

Wearing accelerometers around their waists to measure body movements, the students play " Dance Dance Revolution ” twice a week during their physical education class for eight weeks. The goal of the study...


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