This article originally posted 13 January, 2012 and appeared in Issue 608
Fit or Fat? Live or Die? You Decide.
Fatworldis an online game about the politics of nutrition. It explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition, and socioeconomics in the U.S. The game's goal is not to tell people what to eat or how to exercise, but to demonstrate the complex, interwoven relationships between nutrition and factors like budgets, the physical world, subsidies, and regulations. Existing approaches to nutrition advocacy fail to communicate the aggregate effect of everyday health practices. It's one thing to explain that daily exercise and nutrition are important, but people, young and old, have a very hard time wrapping their heads around outcomes five, 10, 50 years away.
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You can choose starting weights and health conditions, including predispositions towards ailments like diabetes, heart disease, or food allergies. Players construct menus and recipes, decide what to eat and what to avoid, exercise (or not), and run a restaurant business to serve the members of a community. FATWORLD comes with numerous foods, recipes, and meal plans, or players can create their own from the foods in their pantry or their imaginations.
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