{"id":5203,"date":"2009-02-03T17:15:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=5203"},"modified":"2009-02-03T17:15:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T22:15:11","slug":"the-reality-of-wii-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/the-reality-of-wii-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reality of Wii Fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Wii_Fit\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5204\" title=\"nintendo-wii-fit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/nintendo-wii-fit-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"wii fit\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The <a title=\"wii fit\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Wii_Fit\/\" target=\"_self\">Wii Fit<\/a> has been on the market for about a year now, which means people can finally decide whether or not it is truly a meaningful fitness tool, or just a hyped-up game. Forbes took a look at the Wii Fit, which they say is now in 1.5 million homes. They asked the question &#8220;is anyone really using it?&#8221; and the answer may not surprise you.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not really, says Brian Crecente, managing editor of the popular gaming blog Kotaku. Despite optimistic predictions that Nintendo had unleashed a new era of videogames, Crecente calls Wii Fit little more than an exercise fad that&#8217;s bound to come and go like any other. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know a single person who has bought the game who uses it routinely after a month,&#8221; he claims, stressing that getting results from the game requires dedication and real physical exertion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of this <a title=\"wii fit\" href=\"http:\/\/videogames.yahoo.com\/feature\/the-truth-about-wii-fit-and-weight-loss\/1284826\" target=\"_self\">story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wii Fit has been on the market for about a year now, which means people can finally decide whether or not it is truly a meaningful fitness tool, or just a hyped-up game. Forbes took a look at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/the-reality-of-wii-fit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[519,1500],"class_list":["post-5203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-nintendo","tag-wii"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5205,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}