Can playing video games on the Wii help me lose weight?

Can playing video games on the Wii help me lose weight?

It depends whether you want to use
Wii Tennis as your go-to workout or as
a bonus calorie burner. “Video games
can play a role in your weekly regimen,
but they aren’t enough by themselves
to cause significant weight loss,” says
Kevin Short, Ph.D., an assistant professor
of pediatrics at the University of
Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. In
his studies with children, he found that
those who played Wii Sports games,
including boxing and bowling, at high
intensity burned 3 calories a minute—the
equivalent of walking 2.6 miles an hour
on a treadmill. (Short says these results
would probably be similar in adults.) So
in other words, don’t count on virtual
sports for real-world weight loss.