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Title: Gaming :: Eat Breakfast, Drink Milk, Play Xbox - Charlene O'Hanlon, THE Journal Post by: Mark David on May 02, 2007, 06:04:22 AM The daily recipe for students’ health and fitness is taking on a new ingredient long thought to be a poison: video games. Plagued by one of the most overweight populaces in the country, the state of West Virginia was looking for a solution to its obesity problem that would appeal to the school-age crowd. It turned to Linda Carson, a professor at West Virginia University’s School of Physical Education. Carson recalled witnessing kids lining up in an arcade to play a fiercely kinetic video game called Dance Dance Revolution, and she suggested it as a possible remedy. So in the spring of 2004, the state partnered with the university on a research project to measure the effectiveness of DDR on combating childhood obesity.
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