I guess it could come to this. West Virginia, which has the worse child obesity rates in the country, hopes to put a DDR game in each of its schools. At it stands, DDR has been proven to help improve health:"Preliminary results from a 24-week study of 50 overweight or obese children, aged 7 to 12, showed that those who played the game at home for at least 30 minutes five days per week maintained their weight and saw a reduction in some risk factors for heart disease and diabetes."
Here's a link to the full Yahoo! article.
I think this is a step in the right direction, but we really need to stop eating McDonald's and get rid of soda machines in schools. There's little help in playing DDR and then cooling down with a 200calorie Pepsi.
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