Doctors, Lawyers, Politicians, parents–people in power–will have all you gamers believe that video games at a young age leads to obesity.  Some of these same people will go further and say that watching Television also causes obesity, and that both cause behavioral issues.  I’m here to finally place the blame where blame should really be placed.  There is no doubt that the majority of video games are not helping gamers get in shape.  Although the Wii with Wii Fit is a step in the right direction on that front.  However, I do believe that it is not up to a company that sells a product to force feed its members healthy alternatives.

Where does the problem lay?  It’s the parents fault which evolves into the teenagers fault when he/she has the ability to decide things for themselves.  You can give me thousands of studies showing me that sitting on a couch playing video games causes obesity (because it will), and I’ll show you a thousand different reasons that good (well lets change that to certain) parents raise thin kids.  (I’m not really going to show a thousand different ones because I made that number up.)

I’m tired of people in power blaming other people in power for what comes down to a complete lack of parenting.  But, lets face it, if you blame the parents of the world for their kids problems, they, I suppose, in turn blame the individuals blaming them and then maybe that’s how civil war starts.  So come with me, on a little trip I’d like to call One Eighty.  Say, for example, when a child is young he/she runs and exercises everyday.  When this child gets older there is no doubt that he/she will continue to exercise and not be obese in life.  Now if a child actually decides they want to run and exercise everyday, then that’s amazing in and of itself.  However, what if said child is forced and told to run and exercise everyday?  (I don’t mean forced as in being beaten I mean forced as in children are forced to eat their vegetables, or do their chores, or go to bed.)  Is that good parenting?  Sure, if you’re from the school of, “I know what’s best for my kids.”  The problem with fat fat fatties is not that that thin people hate them, or that they are ugly to look at, it’s the obvious health risks that go along with being obese.  And as long as these health risks are around, and I don’t think they are going anywhere, there is an evident risk of being obese.

Parents!!  Stop, yourselves, being lazy.  Stop taking the easy road.  Stop ignoring the issues and creating fat fat fatties.  All of this new generation of new gamers is soon to become parents themselves and I beg of you all–do something about this parenting issue because, although I already foresee a dark future for video games this only will add fuel to an already started spark.  The problem is not in video games it’s in the parents and the kids themselves.  It’s not in the food we eat, it’s in all the food we choose to eat.  Lets be healthy America.  Lets do it for ourselves, for our children, and for our video games.