What Serious Video Games Can Offer Child Obesity Prevention

Childhood obesity is a worldwide issue, and effective methods encouraging children to adopt healthy diet and physical activity behaviors are needed. This viewpoint addresses the promise of serious video games, and why they may offer one method for helping children eat healthier and become more physi...

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Autor principal: Thompson, Debbe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications Inc. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4307831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25654589
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/games.3480
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description Childhood obesity is a worldwide issue, and effective methods encouraging children to adopt healthy diet and physical activity behaviors are needed. This viewpoint addresses the promise of serious video games, and why they may offer one method for helping children eat healthier and become more physically active. Lessons learned are provided, as well as examples gleaned from personal experiences.
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spelling pubmed-43078312015-02-03 What Serious Video Games Can Offer Child Obesity Prevention Thompson, Debbe JMIR Serious Games Viewpoint Childhood obesity is a worldwide issue, and effective methods encouraging children to adopt healthy diet and physical activity behaviors are needed. This viewpoint addresses the promise of serious video games, and why they may offer one method for helping children eat healthier and become more physically active. Lessons learned are provided, as well as examples gleaned from personal experiences. JMIR Publications Inc. 2014-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4307831/ /pubmed/25654589 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/games.3480 Text en ©Debbe Thompson. Originally published in JMIR Serious Games (http://games.jmir.org), 16.07.2014. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Serious Games, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://games.jmir.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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