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Games blamed for obesity by soda companies

gameater.com — Hoy hypocritical can you get huh? It's like Bonnie saying: Clyde robbed all those banks, I had nothing to do with it!

Who dugg this? Made popular Dec 19, 2007

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  • mattcoady, on 12/19/2007, -1/+120Breaking: Dust blames pepper for mass sneezing.
  • piper999, on 12/19/2007, -9/+101Next McDonalds will be blaming Burger King for people getting fat.
  • dvsbastard, on 12/19/2007, -2/+84Note to Soda companies... Games do not contain obscene amounts of sugar...
  • MewTwo, on 12/19/2007, -12/+70Diet is worse than lack of exercise. You could eat healthy and never exercise and not be obese. So.
  • mikewhite314, on 12/19/2007, -0/+56what about the fat adults who don't play video games?
  • Battleloser, on 12/19/2007, -2/+51Intestinal worms.
  • inactive, on 12/19/2007, -0/+41I blame soda companies for violence.
  • Samsong, on 12/19/2007, -4/+44I blame fat people for obesity.
  • thegsa, on 12/19/2007, -1/+38it has good ol' american subsidized high fructose corn syrup with a hint of aspartame
  • nicktheawesome, on 12/19/2007, -1/+36Dugg for fat kid pic.
  • twtmc, on 12/19/2007, -2/+28If anything, a really addictive video game will make you lose weight. When I first started playing WoW, it was summer break, so I would get up every day around noon, make a fruit smoothy and a burrito, play until dinner, eat dinner, play until I got too tired to play, lather rinse repeat. When I finally had enough of WoW about 3 weeks later, I had lost about 10 lbs.
  • InstantRamen, on 12/19/2007, -0/+23So Mountain Dew is pushing you to drink ( Game Fuel ) and they are still going to bitch about it.
  • InstantRamen, on 12/19/2007, -0/+19Jones Soda FTW ! (corn is for cars,sugar is for soda.)
  • TGMD, on 12/19/2007, -1/+18I got this crazy idea,

    How about it's the parent's fault that the kids are fat?
  • Mtown, on 12/19/2007, -0/+17Repeat the soda part 4 times per hour, and knock up the "few hours of video games" to "at least half of day". Continue for 6-14 months and then give us your results.
  • jxfallout, on 12/19/2007, -1/+18http://pictureserver.funnyjunk.com/pics2/ronaldget ...
  • jinjin, on 12/19/2007, -1/+16Funny how everyone who plays videogames isn't obese, and everyone who drinks soda isn't obese. Maybe we should blame the lazy ass kids who sit inside all day drinking soda and playing video games, lazy ass parents who let them sit inside all day drinking soda and playing video games.

    Stop blaming video games, soda, junk food, the government, god, and whoever else you can try to pass the buck to. Take a good long hard look in the mirror and blame the person most responsible.
  • spyd3rweb, on 12/19/2007, -1/+16I blame lazy ass couch potatoes for obesity.
  • Totalchaos02, on 12/19/2007, -0/+15Taste's like freedom!
  • gegroff, on 12/19/2007, -0/+14Maybe the cigarette companies are going to jump on the "blame videogame" bandwagon, and blame lung cancer on video games.
  • pilot3033, on 12/19/2007, -0/+14Or the burrito with a salad.
  • Kurisuku, on 12/19/2007, -0/+13That's medically inaccurate.
  • Mtown, on 12/19/2007, -0/+13i am SO writing the soda companies an angry letter... just as soon as my Rascal batteries recharge so I can scoot myself over to my desk.
  • gothsquirrel, on 12/19/2007, -6/+19That is a terrible analogy. You fail 6th grade English.
  • inactive, on 12/19/2007, -0/+12no! not in america! in america people are entitled to do whatever the ***** they want without being held responsible! everyone is a victim here.
  • tropican8, on 12/19/2007, -0/+12Who is "we"? I'm not Gavin Newsom. I believe the point of the article is the extreme hypocrisy of soda companies saying that video games are making kids fat.

    I personally don't blame the soda companies, but federal corn subsidies that make HFCS even cheaper than it already is. Parents are free to make their kids fat, just not on my dime.
  • ThugThrasher, on 12/19/2007, -0/+11Wait til you hit 25 or 30
    You'll love what can happen if your metabolism catches up to you then like it does many people.
  • pintomp3, on 12/19/2007, -0/+10obscene amounts of sugar would be bad enough, but the high fructose corn syrup is even worse.
  • MasterThief117, on 12/19/2007, -0/+10Ahh, scapegoating...
  • kevma, on 12/19/2007, -0/+10On the contrary, I constantly drink high sugar drinks but am active enough to burn the energy off.

    Here's an idea, let's not blame anybody but the obese individual for being lazy?
  • Kurisuku, on 12/19/2007, -0/+910lbs of muscle, probably. If you kept doing that for a year+ straight it'd eventually backfire and you'd just start to pack on fat.
  • Ugoff, on 12/19/2007, -0/+9I blame the soda companies because they are cheap asses and put high fructose corn syrup in their drinks rather than cane sugar. HFCS has got to be the one of the most unhealthy substances (next to heroine, cocaine, ect.) you can put into your body.
  • Vectorphobe, on 12/19/2007, -1/+10thats 10 lbs of fat and muscle, maybe you should jog to Java Juice for that smoothie.
  • bruggerA, on 12/19/2007, -0/+8thats funny,because most soda companies sponsor professional gaming
  • Dustmuffins, on 12/19/2007, -0/+8"Diggers are supposed to be intelligent folks."

    Lawl.
  • latova, on 12/19/2007, -1/+9The rest of the world has video games and soft drinks, yet they don't have the same problems.
  • valkyries, on 12/19/2007, -5/+12uhm soda in the US rarely has sugar in it anymore

  • Sil369, on 12/19/2007, -1/+8I blame couches.
  • muniak, on 12/19/2007, -1/+8It's all gone to your brain? From what I can tell your brain phails.
  • allan17, on 12/19/2007, -2/+9Maybe it is a bad analogy, but we understand what he or she meant.
  • LETSPLAYCROQUET, on 12/19/2007, -0/+7I'm glad this story included a picture of a fat kid, y'know, because I forgot what fat kids look like.
  • MacintoshSauce, on 12/19/2007, -0/+6More like the following... "We admit that high fructose corn syrup has caused the obesity problem in many of this nation's youth. We are too ***** cheap to use cane sugar like other nations."
  • FlynnRocks, on 12/19/2007, -0/+6It is a joke from the simpsons. Where bart is taking about his education. COME ON!
  • inactive, on 12/19/2007, -6/+12Oh, the ironing.
  • xptoast, on 12/19/2007, -0/+6Diggers digging down smart comments? You should be ashamed of yourselves. Diggers are supposed to be intelligent folks.
  • 1337Einstein, on 12/19/2007, -0/+6That's right, but now think about replacing it with soda, and you may start to realize just how messed up soda companies are for blaming games.
  • Devdude30, on 12/19/2007, -0/+6Surgeon General's Warning: Drinking lots of soda and gaming may cause obesity.
  • shaun1018, on 12/19/2007, -1/+7Is this from the Onion?
  • Takran, on 12/19/2007, -0/+5Your reply is not in the right place.
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