Warning to Link/Blog Spammers

Sorry – totally off topic, but some of the comments appear to have been an actual visitor coming in and writing.

This blog is protected by SPAM KARMA.  Chances are if you are flogging diet pills, or pills of any type or trying to sneak your adult oriented porn site past Spam Karma — don’t even bother.  It’s good.  Really, really good.  It catches a lot of spam.

Stuff that it does not catch, comes to me for moderation.  I’m not stupid.  I will not approve it.  So why bother?

But do keep trying.  It is funny to see what you’re trying to flog — and I get to keep your IP and detailed information about you in my logs!  So if something really disturbing shows up, I can easily contact law enforcement and pass along the details to them.

Regards,

Mohammed

Anna Nicole Smith Sued Over Weight Loss Product

…and another reason why DIET PILLS/PRODUCTS JUST DON’T WORK… found this while surfing this evening:

Anna Nicole Smith and Trimspa are being sued by a woman who insists the diet product the actress/model endorses is bogus.

Angry Janey Luna claims she used Trimspa X32 and expected the “rapid and substantial weight loss” the product promises – but it didn’t work for her.

And Monday, Luna filed suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging the advertising is “false or misleading.”

Website TMZ.com, which obtained the lawsuit against Smith and Trimspa, points out that the plaintiff is possibly a minor, as the suit was filed by her mother, Myra Luna.

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Here is to Your Health!

Regards,

Mohammed

Wii Workout – from the forums at Nintendo.com

Hi,

If you are going to try the Wii to lose weight, here is something I found on the Nintendo forums:

From the forums at Nintendo.com…

“I have read several posts about some people losing weight while playing Wii Sports and some people doubting it. Well I know for a fact, because I am one of them, that you can lose weight and improve your fitness playing Wii sports. All you have to do is play the games with fitness in mind. Here is an example of a workout:

1. Warm-up – Dodge Balls being thrown at your head, leaning far right and far left. Then hit the punching bag for at least 3 cycles.
2. Workout part 1 – Start with Boxing and Box for at least 15 minutes. During your matches continuously punch you opponent as fast as you can. Make sure you throw a variety of punches and twist your waist with each punch.
3. Workout part 2 – Play Tennis for 20 minutes, 5 game matches. Use your whole body when swinging and for a little extra work, see how long you can make some points last.
4. Workout part 3 – several rounds of Baseball Hitting practice – Swing like you are holding a real bat and hit as quickly as possible
4. Slow Down – Play several games of speed Bowling – Leave as little time as possible between frames and throw the ball like you are really bowling. I became a pro doing this
5. Recovery – Play a round of golf

If you are already in shape, this workout may do nothing for you. But if you are overweight like me, and eat a healthy diet, a Wii workout, works.”

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Here is to your health,

Regards,

Mohammed

Nintendo Wii Fitness “Craze”

Well, it had to happen sometime.  The Nintendo Wii has made it to Time.  Here is the full article, along with links to the article on Times’ website:

Is the Wii Really Good for Your Health?

by Tracey Samantha Schmidt

A week after Nintendo’s Wii debuted in November, the Wall Street Journal reported that the gaming console was leaving some users as sore as the gym often does. Unlike traditional hand-held video games, where users sit on the couch exercising little more than their thumbs, the Wii (pronounced “we” not “why”) features digital sensors that let users virtually play the game. In Wii Sports, a game that comes with the console, users mimic the motions used in sports like bowling, tennis and baseball. In other words, the game may be virtual, but the physical exertion is very real.

So much so that, according to the Journal, gamers complained of “aching backs, sore shoulders — even something some have dubbed “Wii elbow.” Nintendo spokeswoman Perrin Kaplan downplayed the report, saying the company hadn’t received any complaints from users about soreness. “If people are finding themselves sore, they may need to exercise more,” she said. “It was not meant to be a Jenny Craig supplement.”

But that’s where she may be wrong. Not only have some gamers started turning the Wii and other similar active gaming consoles into a new form of exercise, but medical researchers are touting their health potential for more than just weight loss. A research team at the University of Toronto is developing a “therapeutic video game” to treat children who suffer from hemiplegic cerebral palsy, a condition that can partially paralyze one side of the body. If the children regularly use their weaker side, their motor function can improve. The problem is getting the children to do so outside of therapy sessions. Active video games might do the trick, thought William Li, an undergraduate engineering student at the University of Toronto who is conducting research at the university’s Bloorview Kids Rehab teaching hospital.

With university researchers, he devised a game console that requires the children to use their dominant hand to hold down a button on their chair. With the weaker hand, the children can play an active video game. “It’s a lot of fun to use, and the movements are the types of things that might be promoted in physical therapy or occupational therapy,” Li says. “[And] the kids don’t have to feel different. This is a game they can take home and play with siblings and friends.”

Wii’s psychological impact may even speed up the recovery process. Mary Jane Zamora, who lives in Redondo Beach, Calif., has battled breast cancer since she was diagnosed in February 2005. After a round of chemotherapy before Christmas in December, she was too tired to get off the couch. Then her grown daughters brought over a Wii. Together they played bowling, tennis and golf. “It got a little exhausting,” Zamora says, but she was hooked and began playing on her own every day. Soon after joining a local bowling league, she was named the league’s Most Improved Player. “What this game did for me was encourage me that I could still do these kinds of things,” she says. “It came around when I needed it. I can see where people could really benefit from being able to interact without having do to much physical exertion.”

But weight loss is still probably the biggest health benefit the Wii will have for users. Active video games like the Wii can fight child obesity, according to a report published by the Mayo Clinic in the January issue of Pediatrics. In that study, researchers found that children burned three times as many calories playing “active” video games versus playing traditional hand-held video games. Because the study was done before the Wii debuted, researchers tested Sony’s EyeToy and Microsoft’s Xbox. But Lorraine Lanningham-Foster, the report’s lead researcher, expects the Wii to have the same effect. “If children are up moving around versus sitting down, then they’re going to burn more calories,” she says.

In December Mickey DeLorenzo, a computer programmer in Philadelphia, hypothesized that he could lose weight by playing the Wii for 30 minutes a day. He lost nine pounds in six weeks and is on his way to becoming the next Jared of Subway fame. In January DeLorenzo signed a book deal, tentatively titled The Wii Workout and teamed up with Traineo.com, a social networking site for dieters and fitness buffs, to feature his new regime. “It’s becoming something like a Richard Simmons show,” says DeLorenzo, who’s received dozens of fan emails. “People will write, ‘You’ve inspired me to buy a Wii and start working out.’”

Two months after dismissing the Wii’s exercising potential, Nintendo spokeswoman Perrin Kaplan now embraces it. “One of our hopes was that people would find a way to enjoy the Wii sitting on the couch or getting up and moving their body around,” she says. “This huge fitness craze was more than we had anticipated.”

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The comment by Nintendo above is bolded and italicized by myself. 

I’ve got to admit, when I first started reading about the Wii fitness craze I was tempted to go out and buy one and in fact did look around for one of the machines.  But if you look behind the story to see what the root is — it’s getting exercise.  Nintendo has found an excellent way to get people off of the couch and jumping and moving around playing video games, and I’m sure this will be very popular with parents who are trying to get their kids to be more active.

Over the next few months, I’m certain we’ll see more exercise routines and such on the internet that make use of the Nintendo Wii.

Is it bad?  Not at all!  Anything to get you moving is great — remember, it IS the exercise helping get the weight off.

Here is the link to the full Time magazine article – Nintendo Wii Lose Weight.

Here is to your health,

Regards,

Mohammed

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