McDonald's Blames Video Games for Childhood Obesity

The chief executive of McDonald’s UK has hit out at video games for being a major cause of the childhood obesity crisis.

[He] made special mention of the popularity of games – and said they have reduced the amount of time young people spend outdoors “burning off energy”. [...]

“Then there’s a lifestyle element: there’s fewer green spaces and kids are sat home playing computer games on the TV when in the past they’d have been burning off energy outside.”