Games heart health

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We can offer content exchanges, link exchanges, and exposure to your website. Come contact us at our contact page on our web site. Hi Marie! Thanks for the great idea. I have thought that this idea would be fun in a classroom setting. I know there are teachers or room moms who need ideas for a Valentines party and this would be a great activity. Marie, you are unbelievable.

This is such a great idea. For the Game: You will need some sort of stuffed heart to toss at the poster board. Make a Heart Bean Bag : red felt pieces scissors hot glue gun — or tacky glue works well if dried overnight dry beans 1. Fill the heart with beans as full as you can get it, without it spilling out.

Hot glue the rest of the heart together. I divided it up into 9 squares, just with a red marker. Now the kids are ready to get their hearts healthy! Simply put, sedentary behavior is bad for you, said Tracie Barnett, an associate professor in the department of family medicine at McGill University in Montreal.

It "is really quite well-established that it increases risk of death from all causes," said Barnett, who was chair of the committee that wrote an American Heart Association scientific statement on sedentary behavior in youth in That report said screen time seems to contribute to children becoming overweight. But, Barnett said, many studies on screen time lump games, computer time and television-watching into one category.

A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition assigned people to either watch TV, play a video game with a controller or play a video game controlled by motion. An assortment of snacks was set nearby. Every group consumed more calories than they expended — but the net intake was highest in the TV group and lowest in the motion-controlled video game group.

A review of studies in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health also found video games were a step up from sedentary screen time. Overall, games that inspire motion — "exergaming" — beat doing nothing, said Barnett. Federal guidelines recommend adults get at least minutes a week of moderate-intensity aerobic activity or 75 minutes per week of vigorous aerobic activity. And there's "a huge amount of benefit" in getting someone to go from no activity to even as little as 15 minutes a day, Barnett said.

That could affect a lot of people. About million people in the U. Research shows video games also can boost emotions and thinking skills. And the power of games to motivate can inspire healthy behavior, said Daehyoung Lee, an assistant professor in the department of applied human sciences at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

But Lee, who helped develop an app that encourages people with autism to be more active , said there are limits to how much good games can do. Gaming before bed also can disrupt sleep patterns, Lee said. And some people have trouble stopping.

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