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Adepts of the console Wii video, don’t hang your skates, your skis or your bicycle! According to has small clinical trial British activities " sportswomen" offered on the Wii are far from procuring the kindness attributable to the true physical exercises.

According to this survey, the adepts of the Wii hardly spent more calories than those taking to classic video games. According to the results, the energizing expense of the participants (11 youngsters aged of 13 years to 15 years) was of 2% more elevated at the users of the Wii compared to those that practice some video games sat. This energizing expense is equivalent to 60 calories per hour of game, either the equivalent of that that a young of 45 kilograms would spend while walking 20 minutes of a middle step. The authors of the survey recognize however that the games as the Wii has the advantage to cause the taste to move at the users and, by extension, could help them to maintain a weight health.

These findings are distinctly more moderate than those presented by researchers of the Clinical Mayo in 2006. According to their result, the video games " active" had increased the energizing expense of 40%, in relation to the classic games, at the 25 children aged of 8 years to 13 years that participated to the survey. This rise was even more important with the game Dance Dance Revolution, either 68% besides. The researchers even concluded that could warn such games maybe and treat the infantile obesity.

So, one must pursue the studies presumably, as for the real kindness of these new video games, he/it seems that they provoked a very real problem however:  the apparition of " Wiitis"  (tendinitis caused by the intensive use of the Wii). The term has been invented by the Dr Julio Profits in an article published in June 2007, in the New England Newspaper of Medicine. In short, before starting your part of tennis or to jump on the ring, he/it is recommended therefore to overheat you.

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