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Outrage as Wii Fit labels healthy child as "overweight"

In a society obsessed with image, could Wii Fit's BMI measurements mistakenly be putting more pressure on impressionable young players to become anxious over their weight?

One player explains that her healthy and active ten-year-old relative was 'devastated' when Wii Fit deemed that she was a little on the heavy side, and that the family "had to work hard to convince her that she isn't."
shuandrew - contributor
Published: 557 days 5 hours ago | News | Wii
 
 
 

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