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It was the holiday shopping season’s biggest question: where can I find a Wii? For the second holiday in a row, this video game console was the item retailers just couldn’t keep in stock. Nintendo marketed the Wii as an engaging new way to get people off the couch and into the action. But does it actually have significant fitness value?

University student Justin White wanted to find out. He says, “I was playing Wii boxing with a friend and noticed how exerting it was. I thought to myself, ‘I’m working up a sweat doing this Nintendo thing…”
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You’re walking or jogging regularly–and maybe you’re even biking, swimming and playing tennis too. If so, you may be reading Anne Strieber’s diet book. You’re ALSO growing new brain cells!

In LiveScience.com, Jeanna Bryner reports that exercise stimulates the growth of new brain cells–in rats anyway. Scientists assume it does the same for us humans. Research is increasingly showing that aging doesn’t automatically result in a steady erosion of brain cells. Rather, older adults who work their brains can develop new connections between brain cells.
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If you’re in despair because you can’t find time to go to the gym, you should know that three or four short, brisk walks throughout the day can be more helpful to people watching their blood pressure than one continuous bout of exercise.

Researcher Janet P. Wallace says, “You might think, ‘I don’t have the time to go to the gym or work out for 40 minutes, but I might have the time to do 10 minutes here, 10 minutes here and another 10 minutes here.’ Four 10-minute walks would be ideal.”
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If you have sore muscles from exercise, you can cure them?or even prevent them?with cherry juice. No, you don’t rub it on your skin, you drink it. And cherries are in season right now.

Cherry juice can reduce muscle pain and damage induced by exercise, according to the British Journal of Sports Medicine. This is important to know, because this is one problem that has few solutions.
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