TheTurnipKing wrote:Darren wrote:my favourite part of the article is;
"Tests showed holding a control and moving your arms to navigate characters burned 40 per cent more calories than doing nothing."
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That assumes that doing "nothing" is burning no calories. I suspect that assumption would be wrong, though I'd need a forumite with greater knowledge of biology than myself to confirm that.
Considering that just by having brain activity you are burning calories, not to mention breathing and pumping blood around, and digesting, and stuff like that, I'd say it was very wrong.
That's why they still have to feed people who are in comas.