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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."
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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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.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
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!"