Medicine: TV Legs

Sitting motionless and staring at TV, long feared by physicians as adanger to the eyes, is also a threat to the circulation. So warnedPhiladelphia’s Dr. Meyer Naide in the A.M.A. Journal last week.Internist Naide cited three patients (one a doctor) who had had severeblood clots in leg veins or arteries, requiring hospitalization andtreatment with anticlotting drugs. Dr. Naide’s prescription: take a”seventh-inning stretch” by getting up and moving around at least oncean hour at TV seances, and for women, take off girdles, which can stopcirculation in the thighs.