I think it goes deeper than junk food. I've got to assume most gamers were not very athletic in their youth and therefore sat around the table, arcades, movies, etc.

My group was rather different. Most of us were heavy into athletics - baseball, football and hockey in the winter before we got addicted to gaming. We still played sports, though. Most played throughout highschool and some into college. Only one guy in our core group of 11 was overweight, and still is today. He was the only one that didn't play organized sports...  ... you do the math.

I don't come from a genetically prone heavy family so I have not had to fight the fat fight (5-11, 180). That, and the fact that I did four years active duty army and 8 reserve kept me in pretty damn good condition.

But I suspect many of our gamer friends never did a push up in their lives, let alone a seven mile run.

I'll have to tell you about the time we climbed down into the sewers in Milwaukee during Gencon. We were all completely drunk at the time, but ...

bbarsh wrote:I think it goes deeper than junk food. I've got to assume most gamers were not very athletic in their youth and therefore sat around the table, arcades, movies, etc.

My group was rather different. Most of us were heavy into athletics - baseball, football and hockey in the winter before we got addicted to gaming. We still played sports, though. Most played throughout highschool and some into college. Only one guy in our core group of 11 was overweight, and still is today. He was the only one that didn't play organized sports...  ... you do the math.

I don't come from a genetically prone heavy family so I have not had to fight the fat fight (5-11, 180). That, and the fact that I did four years active duty army and 8 reserve kept me in pretty damn good condition.

But I suspect many of our gamer friends never did a push up in their lives, let alone a seven mile run.

While on the subject, was everyone here raised in a house like regular humans?  Did you learn how to take a shower, brush your teeth, use cologne, deodorant?  Because many of the fat pigs out there have either never learned or forgotten how.  There is nothing worse than a 300+ lb gamer guy at a convention looking through boxes at a dealer's table that has B.O. and breath that smells of his last philly cheesesteak (heavy on the onions), I know because I was unfortunately next to him at Aggiecon this year....
  Being large enough to be a cholesteral factory is bad enough without being a human being enough to spend a buck on a speed stick before the convention..who knows, you may even get lucky one of these days if you don't smell like a sweaty goof.

Mike B.