Children's calorie expenditure, heart rate increase during active video games
Friday, September 5, 2008 - 10:56
in Health & Medicine
Children burn more than four times as many calories per minute playing an active video game than playing a seated game, and their heart rate is also significantly higher with the active game, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
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