The Wii Fit has become the first computer game to be endorsed by the Department of Health!
The government regularly claims that playing computer games encourages a sedentary lifestyle, and that the video game industry has a role in the increasing cases of obesity seen in children and teenagers.
So Nintendo must be feeling pretty chuffed to receive backing from our very own NHS. A spokesman for the Department for Health said it was not endorsing a video game, but rather an exercise.
Yes people, the NHS are saying that the Wii Fit is an effective form of exercise! Therefore it ‘works’ (like any kind of exercise does).
If you live in the UK, you may have seen a little ‘Change4Life’ logo displayed on their Wii Fit Plus television adverts. From next year, it is possible that the logo will be used on the product itself, an unprecedented partnership between a video game and the Government.
The Change4Life programme is a campaign by the NHS to persuade people, especially children, to take more exercise and eat healthily.
The Wii Fit Plus is out this Friday in the UK.
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