http://www.helpguide.org/elder/alzheimers_prevention_slowing_down_treatment.htm
"Mental exercise has been associated with a reduced risk of getting Alzheimer's. Do something different or learn something new every day or engage in a challenging activity that will exercise your brain:
Play memory games to improve or train your memory
Do crossword puzzles, sudoku, jigsaw puzzles
Play board games, card games, other strategy games"
Of course mental exercise will help reduce the risk of Alzheimer's. It's a simple matter of "use it or lose it". Sorry, but I think this is a far cry from a diet pill scheme.
And I rather doubt that, for people on an exercise program that is working for them, they're going to replace that routine with Wii Fit. It's intended primarily for people who aren't getting exercise. Just because you're a non-gamer doesn't mean you exercise. (Hell, I'm a gamer and I DO exercise, so be gentle when handling stereotypes.)
"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later." -C.S. Lewis
"We all make choices... but in the end, our choices... make us." -Andrew Ryan, Bioshock
Prediction: Wii passes 360 in US between July - September 2008. (Wii supply will be the issue to watch, and barring any freak incidents between now and then as well.) - 6/5/08; Wow, came true even earlier. Wii is a monster.
