Health briefs: Looking older is bone deep

When you think of facial aging, wrinkles and sagging skin come to mind, but new research finds that skin isn't the only thing that ages. Over time, so do the facial bones, which lose volume and recede, making you look even older. And if crow's feet and jowly cheeks weren't enough, the bones of the eye socket gradually widen, the brow bone recedes and the jawbone becomes less defined, says study author Dr. Robert Shaw Jr., chief resident in the division of plastic surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center upstate. While the most pronounced bone loss happened for men after age 65, the process starts earlier in women.

Get up! Sedentary life is dangerous

Too much time spent watching TV or sitting in front of a computer may increase your risk for heart disease and even shorten your life, a new British study found. In fact, if you spend four hours a day or more of your leisure time watching TV, using the computer or playing video games, you are more than two times more likely to suffer a heart attack, stroke, heart failure or die, according to the study.

- HealthDay