Do Video Games Contribute to Childhood Obesity? - Abdulah Alzayer

In the article,’’ Do Video Games Contribute to Childhood Obesity?’’, by,’’ Erica Loop’’. The author explains how the video games cause of obesity. First, the author says that about  12.5 million children between the ages of 2 and 19 are obese, according to the U.S. Then, the author gives The overview to obesity, and she explains that the video games is not the only reason to obesity, she says that the biology is main reason in your child's developing body type, and over consumption of sugary, fattening and overall unhealthy foods such as soda or fast food can lead to childhood obesity. 

Then, the author talks about what children say to their parents, they say that playing video games is more like play another games such as playing on the playground, play sport, or play at Park. Then, the author adds that playing video games is negative for children, and it is like watching TV. The negative things of play video games are the video games take the children away from physical activity, and it cause The obesity. the author says that the children who watch TV more than 5 hours each day greater risk of being overweight than those who watch two hours or less According to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Then, the author adds some research which shows that the video games is not always causes of obesity, According to Michigan State University study, psychology professor Linda Jackson says that the video games is not sole culprit in childhood obesity.

Then, the author explains that how the video games can be Anti-obesity. Some video games need some action, so the children have to moving to play it. if the children play video games like these, they will get good health and fit.

My opinion :

The video games is not the only cause of obesity, there are a lot of kids play video games and they do not get obesity, so there are another causes of that. The parents should be more careful about their kids and they make them balanced in play video games.