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Here's another reason not to get angry.  A new study has found that there's a n early fivefold increase in risk for heart attack in the two hours following outbursts of anger. newswise.com quotes  lead author Elizabeth Mostofsky, MPH, ScD, a post-doctoral fellow in the cardiovascular epidemiological unit at BIDMC and an instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health ,  “There has been a lot of research on anger; we already know it can be unhealthy, but we wanted to quantify the risk, not just for heart attack, but for other potentially lethal cardiovascular events as well.  She notes that the study might help patients think more about how they manage anger in their everyday lives and encourage physicians to discuss medications and psychosocial supports with their patients for whom anger is an issue, especially patients with known cardiovascular risk factors. The study results showed that the risk of heart attack, with symptoms like chest pain, shortness of ...

Want to double your chances of a heart attack?  Just make sure you feel stressed all the time. Now, really, who doesn't feel that way?  Between work, family, home, activities -- who can possibly do it all and not feel a smidgin of pressure? But a new study has found that people who feel they are stressed are far more likely to suffer heart disease than those who simply don't.  (I'd like to know who these people are.) The findings, by French researchers, showed that "people who believe that they are stressed—and that the stress is affecting their health—have more than twice the risk of heart attack as those who don’t feel that way," according to Beth Greenfield at yahoo.com. “This indicates that individuals' perception and reality seem to be connected pretty well,” lead author Herman Nabi , of the  French National Institute of Health and Medical Research , told   Yahoo! Shine   in an email. “In other words, people seem to be aware when stress is af...

What would you do if your shirt could tell you if you were sad? Back in the '70s we had mood rings, which supposedly, by changing color, could tell whether you were nervous or anxious, or happy or mad.  But now a company has put that technology into a shirt . According to a story at smartplanet.com, a Montreal-based smart apparel company OMsignal has developed a T-shirt and a bra that not only tracks your daily steps, calorie burn and heart rate, but it also measures your breathing and emotional well-being using your heart rate variability, or HRV," reported VentureBeat . Kirstin Korosec reports that OMsignal’s clothing contains a tool found in other fitness devices, which measures motion, steps and calories. "It also detects and measures two other signals: your ECG — the electrical signature of your heart — and respiration rhythms," she adds. Sensors woven into the polyester/lycra fabric act as the EKG, producing a read-out of cardiac activity when the user ...

I use social media to stay in touch but now a famous heart association is saying that it can help obese kids lose weight. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/schooled_in_sports/2012/12/heart_association_says_social_media_can_help_combat_childhood_obesity.html