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The Wii Fit Thinks Your Fat
Posted by Jorge | Posted in Games, General, Health | Posted on 15-09-2008
A 10-year-old girl from South East England played Wii’s newest exercise game, “Wii Fit” and was told by the game, during its BMI (Body Mass Index) test, that she was “fat.”
The Wii Fit actually puts users into a variety of categories during the BMI test, the two heaviest categories are “overweight” and “obese.”
The girls father says, “She is a perfectly healthy, 4-feet-9-inch-tall 10-year-old who swims, dances, and weighs only six stone. She is solidly built but not fat. She was devastated to be called fat and we had to work hard to convince her she isn’t.”
Tam Fry for the National Obesity Forum suggested a ban of kids playing the game, “”I am absolutely aghast that children are being told they are fat. A child’s BMI can change every month and it is perfectly possible for a child to be stocky, yet still very fit. I would be very concerned if children were using this game and I believe it should carry a warning for parents.”
So there’s a revolution to ban a game that tries to promote physical fitness, but nobody sees anything wrong with the game that robs people of their cars and kills people and all of these possibly dangerous weight loss pills they can get at the local supermarket and online?
You can buy the WiiFit for $130.35
