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Wii Boosts Parkinson's Treatments
mmmscience writes "Scientists are investigating the use of Wii Sports as a form of treatment for Parkinson's sufferers. After a four-week study, researchers found that rounds of tennis, bowling, and boxing improved rigidity, movement, fine motor skills, and energy levels as well as decreasing the occurrence of depression. It is thought that combining exercise with video games helps to increase levels of dopamine, a chemical that is deficient in Parkinson's. The therapy is gaining notoriety under the name Wii-hab."
I made a cartoon of his two remaining brain cells talking back and forth inside his hollow skull. The conversation went something like this:
Brain Cell 1: "Coke..."
Brain Cell 2: "...CAINE!
Brain Cell 1: "Coke..."
Brain Cell 2: "...CAINE!
etc.
Exercise is like sex, when you're doing it your body is spewing dopamine, endorphins, and bodily fluids in all directions.
You mean I need to be vomiting, cumming and having explosive diarrhea to have sex? No thanks.
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To quote the horrible, horrible, Meatloaf.... "cause two out of three aint bad".
You are all a bunch of idots.
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You mean I need to be vomiting, cumming and having explosive diarrhea to have sex? No thanks.
I'm sure there's a Japanese word for what you describe, but I'm not about to go look it up.
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So what this article is saying, is that the Wii provides a "watered down" Parkinson's experience.
Change you can bewiive in.
No need to make exercise fun. Exercise is like sex, when you're doing it your body is spewing dopamine, endorphins, and bodily fluids in all directions.
I call it: "The Aristocrats!"
Exercise is like sex
And sex is exercise.
You can watch the girl in spandex all you want. I'll be getting my exercise helping her "cool down".
Giggity.
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been there done that, just mute them in your head it makes life better.
Wii Fit includes a 12-step program, and from all the reports I've been hearing, people have been saying that they feel significantly more full of life after going through the program. I might be getting it confused with something else, but I think the steps you go through are Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start.
Well, that's just 11 steps, but I know it's something like that...