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Wii and encouraging fitness?

I’ve decided to do my dissertation on the use of the Wii to encourage people to lead a healthy lifestyle. I decided to do this topic after I heard that five schools in Worcestershire had bought a Wii in order to encourage pupils to come to PE class.

The trouble is, I need to do a literature review, and there’s a distinct shortage of research into the subject, well…anywhere.

All that I’ve found so far is an article in the British Medical Journal about John Moore’s University conducting experiments into how much weight one can expect to lose if the Wii is played frequently.

Does anyone know if anyone else has researched/conducted experiments into this topic? Or if anyone is actually researching it now? I’d much prefer the research to be published, but I really want to do this topic, so I’ll take what I can get!

Thanks for your help,
Chris

if you can get hold of a copy of nintendo the official magazine feb 08 issue in the uk there is a few pages regarding the calories burned playing wii sports ( the mag is the one with the lightsaber from starwars on the front cover)try that, that might help you further

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