New Study says Gamers are Fat and DepressedFollow

Can't be. They dodged bullets. Bullets are ranged. You can't Perfect Dodge ranged attacks.

More like Invincible.

It did say average, I my self wouldnt mind being bigger in size. Means when i finally start gym in the next two months I can put it as something else.

Im not depressed, bit fed up cos i keep sleeping around trying to find miss perfect. Aint gonna happen Ha!
But yeah I too am sick of studies like that, its the same in this country saying most of our kids are obese, but they are not. Its just we live in a society which accepts different shapes and colours. So nothing bothers people.
Which is a good thing.

But then I personally think they should remove any OP to help remove peoples weight when they should get out and excercise if they want and stop all the obese moanings on the news.

Im a Medium Small size body 5 ft 7 so im a short ****** :)
But then I know style, fashion and no not gay lol

Contrary to popular belief, fat doesn't turn to muscle when you work out.

Correct, but the reverse IS true.

Plus, people who work out, tend to want to eat more to keep their muscles fed.

It's not easy to gain muscle and trim down at the same time.

For someone who hasn't worked out much and starts a good workout/cardio regiment, they will shed a few pounds and gain inherent muscle at first pretty easily. After that comes the hard part.

This is just another person who has an anti game ideal, doesn't understand, too old, did you see the picture of the author? I guarantee she is +35, depressed, and overweight.

What there needs to be is more articles and documentaries like Second Skin. It's a documentary about the lives of casual, and non casual gamers with real life examples. The best part is that it has no overlaying tones of approval or disapproval. Just informative and relative. They used to have the documentary to watch for free on warcry but now I think you have to wait for it to come out. I'd recommend it to anyone here.


http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/reviews/6350-Review-Second-Skin

also this makes me laugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=066_q4DIeqk

WTB some of your metabolism...

I can fast for 3 days+ and barely lose a couple pounds, my metabolism is -that- slow. Not to mention I would end up feeling like a ravenous animal.

I'm NOT depressed ; ;

[******************** studies claiming that the majority of gamers are either Fat, Lazy, stupid, or emo. [/quote]

Oh that news makes me so depressed, I gotta wobble off to the fridge for another plate of pancakes & syrup but I can't be bothered. What about that Hitler eh? He should be stopped!

The problem with these surveys is it smacks of:

Chickens have feathers.
This animal has feathers.
Therefore, it is a chicken.

This is a Fallacy. Just like:

These gamers are fat, depressed and virgins
Therefore, all gamers are fat, depressed and virgins.

I'm not a virgin!

Thank god I'm an anomaly then. I play more than one Online game (a few hours each depending on my mood). I'm Female, and not someone who waddles to the Twinkies. &, I'm not depressed.

In fact gaming keeps me from being a total jerk to everyone. Why don't they do something useful.. Like do a study on how many uptight jerks don't play games at all?

~M.

Sorry to say it, but me and my husband are both Asthmatics but we don't let ourselves be lazy just because of it. We have different types. But both of us work long hours at work, and tend to use games to unwind. If it wasn't 2am when my husband gets home, I'm sure he wouldn't mind riding his bike (which he rides to/from work on anyway). In my case I will only need an inhaler if I'm trying to make for the 100 meter dash. Being that only major exertions such as distance running are a bane to breathing like a normal human being, I still make it a point to exercise daily. Being careful not to over-do it.

Totally!


It's mostly people that let their daily problems get them down, that suffer depression and often weight gain. And while any study is likely to show that gamers are overweight and depressed.. ask yourself this. "how many people alive today are not gamers, and how old are they?" you will likely find that most people born in 1970+ tend to be gamers (cause games became something you could play at home in the early 80s).

~M.