
Jared Diamond doesn't explicitly attack video games but he suggests it contributes to kids being sendentary and that it's a factor in some of them getting diabeties. I mean, he has a point. My brother-in-law carefully monitors how much his kids play video games and tries to have them do other things too like Cub Scouts, Martial Arts and Dance classes so they don't sit in front of the TV all the time. I think you have to look at the adicitive quallity of some games and not get too caught up in it all or let your kids, if you have some - I don't, get too carried away. I must have a natural immunity to it though because I usually stop a game that becomes too much of a adiction for me.