Tom Coffee over at SpillingCoffee.com has written about how the Wii serves to help you lose weight just like a variety of other methods; though unlike those many other methods, the Wii makes it fun. Excerpt and link below:

…You could also burn the same calories (and probably lose the same amount of weight) if you spent those 30 minutes painting your living room walls or jogging in place or simply waving your arms around like an idiot. Yet, curiously, Sherwin-Williams has not tried to sell their paint brushes as exercise equipment and America still has an obesity problem (myself included) even though many of our living rooms are freshly painted…

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