The feasibility of ambulatory screen time in children

Mellecker, Robin R.; McManus, Alison M.; Lanningham-Foster, Lorraine; Levine, James A.

doi:10.1080/17477160802315002

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“…Heart rate was significantly higher during gaming than rest. In another study, Mellecker et al (2009) [49] tested the feasibility of a newly developed walking media station they had created. This station was a treadmill with a screen attached.…”

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Moving Beyond the Stigma: Systematic Review of Video Games and Their Potential to Combat Obesity

Guy

Ratzki‐Leewing

Gwadry-Sridhar

2011

International Journal of Hypertension

103

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Increasing epidemic proportions of overweight children in the United States presents formidable challenges for education and healthcare. Given the popularity and pervasiveness of video gaming culture in North American children, the perfect opportunity arises to investigate the potential of video games to promote healthful behaviour. Our objective was to systematically review the literature for possible benefits of active and educational video games targeting diet and physical activity in children. A review of English-language journal articles from 1998 to 2011 using EMBASE and PubMed was conducted. Thirty-four studies concerned with children, video games, physical, and/or nutritional outcomes were included. Results of these studies that showed some benefit (increased physical activity and nutritional knowledge as a result of gaming) demonstrate the possibility of video games to combat childhood obesity—looking beyond the stigma attached to gaming.

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confidence: 99%

Moving Beyond the Stigma: Systematic Review of Video Games and Their Potential to Combat Obesity

Guy

Ratzki‐Leewing

Gwadry-Sridhar

2011

International Journal of Hypertension

103

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“…with changes in food availability and with the seasons. NEAT changes across a person’s lifespan—compare the frenetic energy of a young child [103, 104] to the deliberate gait of an elderly person [45, 105]. The age-decline in NEAT has been linked to changes in telomere length [90].…”

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Sick of sitting

Levine

2015

Diabetologia

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Sitting too much kills. Epidemiological, physiological and molecular data suggest that sedentary lifestyle can explain, in part, how modernity is associated with obesity, more than 30 chronic diseases and conditions and high healthcare costs. Excessive sitting—sitting disease—is not innate to the human condition. People were designed to be bipedal and, before the industrial revolution, people moved substantially more throughout the day than they do presently. It is encouraging that solutions exist to reverse sitting disease. Work environments, schools, communities and cities can be re-imagined and reinvented as walking spaces, and people thereby offered more active, happier, healthier and more productive lives.

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“…Accelerometers and step counters are widely available and have been deployed, for example, in people's shoes and on their clothing, to not only measure but also help modulate physical activity and, thus, energy expenditure [33,54,55]. Gaming has been widely publicized and studied as a means for promoting activity, whereby the gaming environment becomes an active one replacing a sedentary one [56]. Games such as Dance Dance Revolution™ and the Wii™ are examples of activity-promoting gaming and games associated with proven increases in energy expenditure compared with traditional sedentary modes [57,58].…”

Section: Science-based Foundationmentioning

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“…Gaming has been widely publicized and studied as a means for promoting activity, whereby the gaming environment becomes an active one replacing a sedentary one [56]. Games such as Dance Dance Revolution™ and the Wii™ are examples of activity-promoting gaming and games associated with proven increases in energy expenditure compared with traditional sedentary modes [57,58]. Interestingly and importantly, such approaches have yet to be proven to be associated with sustained and long-term changes in weight loss, although for some individuals this clearly does occur [59].…”

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Integrated electronic platforms for weight loss

McCrady-Spitzer

Levine

2010

Expert Review of Medical Devices

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What can be done to build effective weight loss solutions for the 1.5 billion people with obesity? It is self-evident that no one good solution exists for people who are overweight or obese, otherwise it would have been applied across the people who need it worldwide. There is, therefore, an urgent need for approaches that will afford weight loss; what is more, such approaches need to be scalable. For that reason, it is attractive to consider electronic platforms as an avenue for scalable weight loss solutions. Such platforms often do not require substantial investments but rather the integration of pre-existing off-the-shelf components. In this article we explore the concepts and design challenges for electronic platforms that precipitate weight loss.

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The feasibility of ambulatory screen time in children

Cited by 14 publications

References 29 publications

Moving Beyond the Stigma: Systematic Review of Video Games and Their Potential to Combat Obesity

Moving Beyond the Stigma: Systematic Review of Video Games and Their Potential to Combat Obesity

Sick of sitting

Integrated electronic platforms for weight loss

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