Elderly more at risk of heart attack in cold weather

Cold weather may raise blood pressure in elderly. In new research French are suggesting that elderly people may be more at risk of suffering a stroke, heart attack or kidney failure in winter because cold weather may raise their blood pressure.
The researchers from the National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Paris say four decades of research has shown that blood pressure changes with the seasons, but very little has looked specifically at old people.
Read on

Hand-held game devices lower fitness in children

If videogames like “Madden NFL” didn’t exist, 12-year-old Tom might go outside and toss around a real football – and he’d have a better chance of sprinting for a touchdown without getting winded Too much small-screen recreation could undermine physical fitness, Australian researchers have found, in a new study that looks at how e-mail and text messaging, TV, videogames and net surfing affect aerobic endurance in adolescents………..Read on

.