Hand-held game devices lower fitness in children

If videogames like “Madden NFL” didn’t exist, 12-year-old Tom might go outside and toss around a real football – and he’d have a better chance of sprinting for a touchdown without getting winded Too much small-screen recreation could undermine physical fitness, Australian researchers have found, in a new study that looks at how e-mail and text messaging, TV, videogames and net surfing affect aerobic endurance in adolescents………..Read on

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