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'Wii Fit'

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'Wii Fit'

Essential skill: How to get fit

Format: Wii

Take to your Balance Board and get healthy with the advice of the Nintendo's personal training device.

The title's scientific merit may be uncertain but regardless, it is certainly better for kids to play this game then blast away their friends on 'Halo 3'.

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