In Saturday's Guardian, a front page article announced that childhood obesity in the UK has doubled in a decade, and that a lack of exercise and a taste for Ho Ho's are to blame. Often when obesity hits the headlines, the anti-games crusaders line up interactive entertainment in their sights, claiming Mario and Sonic are the culprits. Well, here's a slight tear in their logic: little girls are fatter than little boys, and we all know (*wink*) that videogaming is primarily a boy's sport.
Does this let games off the hook or is this ammunition for the argument that girls play games?
