Wii players need to exercise too
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Playing "active" computer games such as the Nintendo Wii is no substitute for playing real sports, warn experts.
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Trying to avoid vertigo, falls and other hazards of lost equilibrium.
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The active video games played on the Nintendo Wii console may provide more exercise than its Microsoft rival the Xbox 360, a small British study has found, but they are not a substitute for the real thing.
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By Troy Wolverton, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec. 16--Nintendo hoped the motion-sensing controller for its new Wii  console would get users excited and give the game machine some buzz.   It turns out that some Wii users got a little too excited.
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You need more than an Xbox 360 and a plasma-screen TV to exploit the latest video games for their full entertainment value. These days, you also need a friend.
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A workout is certainly one way to burn off some excess anxiety after a long, stressful day at work. For wound-up video gamers, though, it's a lot more fun to fire up the console and plow through endless waves of zombies.
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Playing on the Nintendo Wii can improve a surgeon's performance in the operating theatre, a study shows.
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Nintendo Co. Ltd.  has  some cautionary advice for players of its Wii video game  console: when waving the controller, use the wrist strap, keep  your palms dry and, whatever you do, don't let go.
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When Jane Rodriguez was a kid she used to spend hours outside playing with her friends. Rodriguez, now a certified physical education teacher, said today&#39;s kids aren&#39;t as active or as healthy.
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As the 2004 Summer Olympics officially get underway Friday with an international broadcast of the opening ceremonies, health experts expect the Athens games to inspire couch potatoes to become more active. But, experts caution, amateurs, particularly sedentary ones, should not jump into a new sports activity without sufficient preparation.
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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDayNews)  Exercise-intervention programs can help boost physical activity in children, says a study by researchers at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing.
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In the N.F.L.âs Play 60 Challenge, participants pledge to be physically active for at least 60 minutes a day as a way of getting families to understand the dangers of child obesity.
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The success of Nintendo's (7974.OS)  Wii video game console and franchises like Activision's   "Guitar Hero" have prompted companies to explore new  ways to allow players to control their games.
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LONDON -- A friendly game of soccer works off more fat and builds up more muscle than jogging, new research shows. Danish scientists, who conducted their research on 37 men, also found the soccer players felt less tired after exercising than the joggers because they were having more fun.
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The Nintendo Wii may be the least powerful of the new generation of video game systems, but for many it will be the most fun, and thatÂs what really matters.
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Working up a sweat playing video games  on Nintendo's interactive Wii console is no replacement for  real exercise but at least it gets overweight children off the  couch, according to British researchers.
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NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 10 - A short, moderately intense exercise intervention helped third-graders switch to healthier activities such as soccer and swimming instead of watching TV, researchers reported at the