Obesity expert wants kids banned from playing Wii Fit
                   
rgj.com     May 17, 2008            

video game after an incident where the game called a 10-year-old girl fat. According to the Daily Mail, a father from the South East said her daughter was humiliated when the game labeled her as being fat after it calculated her BMI. "She is solidly built but not fat," said the father, who... [read full story]                    


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