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Le Bonheur video game collaboration has kids jumping to exercise

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Living a healthy lifestyle takes more than one hour a week. Webb Smith, exercise physiologist at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital is trying to come up with a way to start healthy practices, like exercise, early-on by introducing kids to video games that get them running, jumping and squatting. The concept began in 2015 when Smith received a grant from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) to work with FitNexx, Memphis-based developer of virtual reality games, to develop an active video game.

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