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Gaming
the Pounds
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active video
games can help
kids lose weight,
researchers say. In
a 16-week study of
75 overweight or
obese 8- to 12-year-
old children enrolled
in family-based
weight loss programs
at YMCas and
schools, half were
given video games
that engage players
in physical activity.
By the study’s end,
active video gamers
were getting eight
extra minutes of
moderate or vigorous
physical activity
daily and had lost
5. 4 percent more of
their body weight
than kids following
only the weight
loss program.
Source: JAMA
Pediatrics, published
online March 3, 2014
WEIGHT Y
SUPPORT
a majority of
americans would
support laws
prohibiting
discrimination
against people who
are obese. In a 2013
survey of 1,202
people, 79 percent
said they would
support a law that
forbids employers
from discriminating
based on weight;
76 percent endorsed
placing body weight
in their states’ civil
rights laws as a
protected category
along with race,
religion, and sex; and
69 percent supported
laws extending
disability protection
to people with
obesity. thus far,
the state of Michigan
and a few localities
have enacted the
first type of law.
Source: Obesity,
published online
april 8, 2014
In Poor Taste
⬤ it’s a widespread belief that smoking helps with weight loss,
but a new study suggests that may not be true. Researchers studied
47 obese and normal-weight women, some of whom smoked and
others who had never smoked. Given four puddings with varying
levels of fat, the obese smokers rated all as being less creamy, less
sweet, and less pleasurable than did the other three groups of
women. what’s more, regardless of weight, all of the smokers
reported craving more high-fat foods than did those who had never
smoked. Though the study doesn’t prove cause and effect, the
researchers say smokers’ lessened ability to perceive taste could
lead them to consume more calories.
Source: Obesity, april 2014
