Saturday, January 16, 2010

Move Over, Dr. Atkins

Video games have many uses, but there are two things they cannot do. First, they can't find you a girlfriend, no matter how much virtual gold you have or how many eldritch scrolls you've collected. Second--and even more depressing for most gamers--video games can't help you lose weight.

Or so I thought...until I found this story about a Georgia teen who dropped 150 pounds by treating weight loss like a video game. But even after reading the article, I'm still not quite sure how he pulled it off. Did he limit himself to a diet of cherries, a la Pac-Man? Or did he opt for the Link diet, which consists entirely of milk? I'm curious.

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