University lecturer gets £5,000 to study Wii
A university boffin has been given £5,000 to discover if the Nintendo Wii can make children fit.
Dr Michael Duncan from the University of Derby will monitor a group of schoolchildren who use the games console during their school lunch break.
Over a period of six weeks he will test to to see if it can improve fitness and help tackle obesity by getting the pupils to wear a an accelerometer to monitor how much exercise the game actually gives them.
It is thought the sports science expert, who was awarded £5,000 funding from the TANITA Healthy Weight Community Trust, hoped he would get to run the tests on the YouTube Wii Fit girlfriend.
"This study aims to see if young children can lose weight or improve their health by using the Nintendo Wii," said Dr Duncan.
"There is a lot of discussion that video games are bad for your health and we hope this research will determine if playing on this equipment could actually have physical benefits for children."
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