{"id":1538,"date":"2007-12-22T09:38:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T14:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2007\/12\/22\/study-wii-gaming-no-substitute-for-exercise\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:54","slug":"study-wii-gaming-no-substitute-for-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2007\/12\/22\/study-wii-gaming-no-substitute-for-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Wii gaming no substitute for exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?1862\">ars technica<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Younger gamers looking to con a Wii out of parents this year by selling them on the physical benefits of &#8220;active&#8221; gaming, it&#8217;s time to dream up a new strategy. A UK study entitled &#8220;Energy expenditure in adolescents playing new generation computer games&#8221; reveals that a round of Wii Sports doesn&#8217;t work the body nearly as hard as proper exercise. While it expends more energy than &#8220;idle&#8221; gaming with a controller, the difference is negligible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ars technica: Younger gamers looking to con a Wii out of parents this year by selling them on the physical benefits of &#8220;active&#8221; gaming, it&#8217;s time to dream up a new strategy. A UK study entitled &#8220;Energy expenditure in adolescents playing new generation computer games&#8221; reveals that a round of Wii Sports doesn&#8217;t work &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}