Well, who would have thought it? Scientists from John Moore's Nursery... er sorry University, have found that playing computer games does not use up as much energy as taking part in sport!!!!
The in depth study, where teenagers were wired up to monitors in a laboratory, found that sitting on the sofa playing computer games used less energy than active games using a Wii set, yet surprisingly neither activity used up as much energy as running about outside.
Well, chuff me, as they say in Barnsley, the next thing you know they'll be telling us that eating too much makes you fat, drinking too much alcohol can impair your cognitive abilities temporarily, day follows night and the Earth goes round the sun.
Boggartblog is currently filing it's application for a research grant to find out if the Earth is flat.
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