The image of gamers looking at the screen, reaching for food and drinks, and taking the opportunity to eat while playing games has long been no stranger.
Statistics from the NewZoo organization (newzoo.com – an organization specializing in collecting and analyzing game-related indicators) show that up to 80% of gamers worldwide admit to regularly having to eat food.
Eating without purpose
Answer the question: What do players really eat when playing games?
Research helps us visualize what players often do when they wait for the game to load, when the game pauses, and even during the hours of the game.
The term mindless eating (`mindless eating`) has become popular in recent years.
Vandana Sheth, a nutritionist in Los Angeles, told Digital Trends that `We’re eating without actually enjoying the meal,` and `It’s easy to fall into a state of wanting to eat even though we’re not hungry, and
Of course, to lose weight we need to consider two sides of the problem: the amount of calories consumed and the amount of energy consumed.
`Recipe` for creating health problems
Whether or not the problem is exaggerated, according to research results from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emory University and Andrews University when conducting health checks on more than 500 games.
Sheth thinks these observations may help us generalize a general formula for health problems.
Gamers are not alone.
Sheth commented that all unintentional eating activities, whether while playing games or watching movies, distract us from eating, causing negative effects on our health.
So, what can we do to improve this?
According to Sheth: `Enjoy your meal, regardless of whether it’s a main meal or a snack` and `Try to focus on feeling the delicious taste of the food, avoid distractions. Avoid eating when you have to be distracted from doing anything.`
For gamers who tend to favor snacks, `creating distance` can also help somewhat.
Dr. Brian Wansink, author of the popular book `Mindless Eating` (`Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think`), in an interview with the US National Institutes of Health (the National
`We discovered that if we moved the candy dish 6 feet away from the table, only half of the candy on the dish would end up being eaten.`
(according to Digital Trends)
