Well, child obesity is at such a level in US that government of every state is trying new and never-heard-before ways to combat this problem. Here is one of the very different among these ways–the government of West Virginia–the state which has the worst childhood obesity problem in the United States–is all set to use Konami’s “Dance Dance Revolution” to battle the obesity within the school premises. It is important here to note that this would be achieved through a video game, which involves dancing of the player. It has been reported by the state itself that the research conducted along these lines has suggested that it helped to put a halt on weight gain.

The results that are preliminary in the sense that there had been a study conducted on students who aged between 7-12 years for around 24-week. There were around 50 obese children included in the study–it has been reported that a student, who played the game at home for at least 30 minutes five days per week, showed better weight management and had been noticed to shorten the risks for heart disease and diabetes.

The study was sponsored by the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency, and the children that were involved in the study were the children of its policy holders. 

Well, we need to understand here that video and computer games had been termed as the worst enemies of children who are gaining uncontrolled weight. However, this video game involves quite a lot of physical activity, and this is the reason why the state officials are endorsing it for good reasons–we will need to agree that this video game does not have that effects on children that we usually notice with other conventional and free-of-physical-activity video games.