Game addict kids hit by 'extinct' bone disease

CRIPPLING bone disease rickets has made a shock comeback - because kids are staying indoors with video games instead of playing in the sunshine.

The condition - rife in gloomy 19th-century slums but wiped out in Britain in the 1930s - has been found in more than A FIFTH of children in a Southampton study.

And unlike the olden days...

[Shackdaddy836]

Thats why parents should interact with their kids and play with them instead of sitting them in front of the T.V. and ignore them...

I'm happy I didn't have crappy parents.

[TheLastGuardian]

Who needs real life when GT5 has better grahics?

[Honky Kong]

even if you arent joking, its funny. Thanks for that!

[Scottyabanks]

Lololol

[Bobbykotickrulesz]

Good point. Dumping my girlfriend and waiting patiently for GT5.

Maybe I should stock up on snacks so I don't have to leave the house for at least a month.

[Nihilism]

You know you play too many games when you look at a tree in real life and think "could use little more anti-aliasing"...which I have done...

[a08andan]

I do prefer real life since it has amazing real time light-rendering. No lag and always perfect! :)

[irepbtown]

Dont they go to school?
I do (Live in England), 'They dont get enough sunlight' was it?
Parent fault, i play games quite alot but i still go out and play football (Or soccer as some of you might know it as).

No blame on games, just parents.

[Chuk_Chuk]

Or they could focus on making the streets of England safe or give kids things to do instead of letting them hang around a bus shelter all day.

[hiredhelp]

i agree there . but i cant see this soo many storys about how games can effect you. only some are. well plausable this i cant see as most kids go school so there for they do get some movement in there joints.

[Redempteur]

game addicts kids ?? why just not kids ?

every kid in modern society is hit by the potential of this in developped countries

[poindat]

Which just so happens to be the definition of sensationalist and trash reporting. Generalizing them as 'game addicts' gives them more hits.

[Scottyabanks]

You can't blame video games, blame bad parenting. Me and and my brother are both hardcore gamers and compete in many tournaments, and spend a lot of time gaming. However, growing up, despite our video game habits, found just as much time to go out and play football with our friends, I was on a juniors hockey team, and he bowled weekly on a team. My mother caters, and always cooked all that good stuff right at home, so we didn't do fast food that much. And because of that, yes, we we still maintain many of those good habits.

Parents have full control over their kids development, and it's pure laziness when parents buy their kids a console instead of encouraging them to do something else. Hell, when the Ps2 launched me and my bro didn't get ours until we could furnish all 80's or higher on our report cards. Sometimes my parents would let me stay out late when I was in middle school if I would get of my game for the rest of the day.

So yes, there are many strategies parents can use to properly influence their kids to have an equal balance between work, play, and games. Cause this whole "kids addicted to games" shit doesn't fly with me.

[BiggCMan]

It sounds like me and you came from the same family haha. My mom raised my brother and I just like you. My brother and I were on a soccer team when we were younger, we were constantly outside but we played video games very often. And it was rare to eat unhealthy foods in the house since my mom would always cook fresh foods. This article, like many before it is just trying make video games look bad. Kids these days are the way they are because of their parents. Kids are becoming fat and lazy because their parents are becoming fat and lazy. The education system in america is laughable at best. Teachers rarely give a damn about students, because students dont give a damn about their future. Its ridiculous.

[Scottyabanks]

Exactly what I'm saying. It's also sad to say that even with the innovation of the Move and Kinect, it's making it even easier for parents to be okay with their kids staying inside. I can see it now, a parent goes into Walmart and says "hmmm, maybe I should buy the new Xbox with Kinect... cause I sure am tired of cleaning the McDonald's french fry grease off my sons controllers. Plus he can work off those McDoubles he likes so much right here in the living room, instead of playing with that Timmy kid and his Ps Move down the street."

The future looks bleak my friend.

[gamingisnotacrime]

is called parenting

stupid legislation coming soon?

[frjoethesecond]

This is it!!

Humanity will devolve for the second time in history (the first time was the fall of the Roman empire BTW).

[dragonelite]

Wasn't that the dark ages where we stood still for almost 500 years until the Renaissance began. 500 years of technical improvement not used imaging what einstein could do with the computing power we have today i could live on mars goddammit and have some alien sex like in mass effect.

/bored post

[PirosThe4th]

That's why Kinect is a bad idea people should play outside in teh SUN not in front of the tv if you going to jump and look and a retard do it outside the house not inside... lol

[BillOreilly]

I agree people should be active outdoors and get sun but why the trollin. If kinect can get kids and familys active more power to it. I see it bringing familys closer as parents can now enjoy games with their kids and be active. Nothing beats running around with fiends though. I gamed hard as a kid but football and manhunt and baseball always came first.

[jneul]

lol well my kids get plenty of outside time and play on games,this is probably media bs again, not to mention we have the move and we can play in the light if we choose and you really have to move, it's good exercise, it all comes down to parenting and when to put your foot down and basically get them out and about lolz

[Scottyabanks]

Agreed. That and yes, the media will blow anything out of the water to increase traffic.

[DarkFantasy]

Interesting read anyway,just reminds me to keep an active life style and eat right,and remember my life dose not revolve around games,the games should revolve around me and not have total control over me.Kids shouldn't blame there parents they only have them self's to blame,its your time use it wisely or don't it's you're life.

[xino]

i hate The Sun so much

[chad22hkd]

parental FAIL!!!!!!!!!

[creamsoda]

Haha i'd expect kids to get this bone disease from playing in the school playground rather than playing games. These stories are just scare tactics to get parents off their asses.

[Garnett]

What kids stays in front of the TV with this gens crappy games? meh...

[a08andan]

Well I'm glad I am an adult. I work out at the gym 3-4 times every week, I'm getting stronger and I am preventing any "damage" that possibly could be caused by me gaming :)

[CraigUK]

Don't these kids have school? If they got rickets its the parents fault.