Parents who are worried that their kids aren't getting out and getting enough exercise fear not! A new study has found that playing video games for two hours burns as many calories as doing 1,000 sit-ups!
Researchers used devices like FitBits to track heart rates and calories burned while people played games or did sit-ups, and found that men burned an average of 210 calories an hour while gaming, while women burned 236. It took around 500 sit-ups to burn the same amount, according to the New York Post.
A separate study last year also found gamers are 21% more likely to have a healthy body weight than non-gamers!
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