Study Finds PC Gamers Unhealthy

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Elite gamers have much in common with top athletes, according to British academics – but, unsurprisingly, its not their fitness. University of Essex professor Dr Dominic Micklewright studied professional gamers, testing their psychological skills and fitness levels and comparing them to a top-level athlete for a BBC Radio 4 documentary.

One of the guys [in his early twenties] had the kind of level of aerobic fitness that was comparable to a man perhaps 60-years-old who had led a sedentary and relatively unhealthy life, perhaps a smoker or a drinker, he said. “That was quite surprising.

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