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Playing active video games doesn’t lead to increased daily physical activity levels

Posted November 26, 2012 by Travis Saunders, Phd, MSc, CEP in News, Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour

Active Healthy Kids Canada released a position stand this morning on active gaming as a means of increasing physical activity (full disclosure: I wasn’t involved in the process, although various labmates/colleagues of mine were). When

Nintendo Wii – Is It Really Physical Activity?

Posted September 6, 2010 by Travis Saunders, Phd, MSc, CEP in Obesity Research, Products, Sedentary Behaviour

http://www.flickr.com/photos/abbynormy/ / CC BY 2.0 Earlier this year, Peter wrote a post about Wii-related injuries which generated some interesting discussion. Essentially, some readers felt that we were being too hard on the Wii, with one