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Even if we exercise regularly, too many hours in front of the television can be detrimental to our health. There’s apparently a link between watching television and dying of cardiovascular disease. The culprit? Sitting. Apparently while we’re sitting there, our bodies are mishandling fats and sugars from our diet. There’s a link between muscle movement and “lipoprotein lipase� in the bloodstream. Not using muscles allows that enzyme to temporarily shut down, which in turn lets more of the bad cholesterol get a foothold in the bloodstream. This is true, even if we’re not overweight. According to the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study, if we watch more than four hours a day of television, we’re 46 percent more likely to die, period. We’re 80 percent more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than people who sit in front of a television for less than two hours a day. The more hours, the more risk. The study ran for 10 years, and the average age of the participant was 50 years old.
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THE VANCOUVER GAMES (continued): Olympic Winter Games. u Norway is number one, when it comes to most Winter Olympic medals, with 263. u Not surprisingly, no country in the Southern Hemisphere has ever hosted a Winter Games. u U.S. Speed skater Bonnie Blair has won six medals at the Olympic Winter Games. That’s more than any other American athlete. u Nobody has won more medals at the Winter Games than cross-country skier Bjorn Dählie of Norway, who has 12. u Norwegian Sonja Henie won her first gold medal at the 1928 Olympics and at the next three Olympics no female figure skater could compete with her, she was that good. u Sonja Henie’s grace and style sets a new standard for figure skating. And she was young. At 15 years, 10 months, Henie was, at the time, the youngest woman ever to win a gold medal. u The 1940 Games, in Sapporo, Japan, and 1944 Winter Games, scheduled for Corina d’Amerzzo, in Italy, were cancelled due to World War II. u Seventy years after those first cold weather Games, the 17th edition of the Winter Olympics took place in Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994. The event ended the four-year Olympic cycle of staging both Winter and Summer Games in the same year and began a new schedule that calls for the two Games to alternate every two years. u The Soviet Union (USSR) participated in its first Winter Olympics in 1956, and took home the most medals, including the gold medal in ice hockey. u It takes two: 1968 East Germany and West Germany officially send separate teams for the first time and continued to do so through 1988. u After East and West Germany’s unification, the country finally sent a single team in 1990. u Thanks, but no thanks: The International Olympics Committee granted the 1976 Winter Games to Denver in May 1970. But wait a minute: in 1972 Colorado voters reject a $5 million bond issue to finance the undertaking. Denver
immediately withdraws as host and Innsbruck, Austria is chosen as the site of the 1964 Games. u Why the change in cycle? The IOC moved the Winter Games’ four-year cycle in order to separate them from the Summer Games and alternate Olympics every two years. u The Olympic flag’s colors of red, black, blue, green and yellow rings on a field of white are there because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet. u Number one: The U.S. was the first country to win a Winter Olympic event. Speed skater Charles Jewtraw won the first event of the Games with an upset in the 500 meters. u U.S. figure skater Tara Lipinski, 15, became the youngest woman to win a gold medal at the Winter Games. Sonja Henie would have been proud. u After earning her Olympic gold medal in 1968, Peggy Fleming starred in several television specials and performed in numerous skating exhibitions across the U.S.A. She has also been a popular commentator for ABC Sports, often working with fellow Olympic champ Dick Button. u Jean Claude Killy, the brilliant 24-year-skier, already a world champion, excited the world again
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New Ways to Treat Varicose Veins DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have varicose veins on both of my legs. I wear only long dresses and slacks to hide them. My legs don’t hurt, but I would like to be rid of these veins. What can I do for them? At this point, I am not interested in surgery. — L.H. ANSWER: Leg veins face a Herculean task. They have to return blood to the heart in the face of gravity, which works to keep blood from moving upward. They couldn’t accomplish their task if they didn’t have valves. As blood moves upward in the vein, its valves close so that it can’t fall back down. The problem with varicose veins is a valve problem. Their valves no longer work. Blood stays in the leg veins, distends them and stretches them out of shape — varicose veins. Varicose veins can make the legs ache or cause them to tire quickly. Sometimes, the pooled blood leaks fluid out of the veins, so the ankles and feet swell, and open ulcers — most often around the ankle — might form. And then there is the cosmetic aspect, about which I’m not qualified to comment. Things you can do for varicose veins are limited but worth trying. One is compression stockings. The very best stockings are the ones with graduated
compression, with the compressive force greatest in the lowermost part of the leg and with lesser force in the upper parts of the leg. Compression moves blood upward. Another way to keep blood from pooling is lying down with your legs higher than your heart. That position empties blood out of leg veins. Admittedly, you can’t spend the entire day with your legs elevated, but elevate them as often as you can. Never stand for long in one place. If you have to stay still, contract your calf and leg muscles to push blood out of the legs. Should you change your mind about surgical vein removal, you should know that today there are many methods of getting rid of these veins. Endovascular lasers, radiofrequency catheters and sclerotherapy are recent-vintage techniques. Surgical removal has been refined to the point that most patients return home on the day of operation. i i i Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. © 2010 King Features Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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