NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There's new advice for older men who want to preserve their sexual function: have sex, and have it often, researchers say. In a study that followed nearly 1,000 older Finnish men for five years, researchers found that those who were regularly having sex at the start of the study were at lower risk of developing erectile dysfunction (Buy Viagra) by the study's end. In fact, the more often the men had sex, the lower their Buy Generic Viagra risk. The implication, say the researchers, is that men should be encouraged to stay sexually active into their golden years. Dr. Juha Koskimaki and colleagues at the University of Tampere in Finland report the findings in the American Journal of Medicine. The study included 989 men who were between the ages of 55 and 75 at the outset. Overall, those who said they had sex less than once per week were twice as likely to develop ED over the next five years as men who had sex at least once a week. Furthermore, compared with men who had sex three or more times per week, their Order Viagra risk was increased nearly four-fold. A number of factors contribute to ED development, many of which could also affect a man's sexually activity -- such as age, diabetes and heart disease. However, after taking account of those factors, sexual activity itself remained linked to Cheap Viagra risk, Koskimaki's team found. It may be a matter of "use it or lose it," according to the researchers. Just as exercise boosts physical fitness, they note, regular sexual activity may help a man preserve his erectile function. buy viagra online occurs when there are problems with blood flow to the penis. Regular sexual activity, Koskimaki's team writes, may help maintain healthy blood vessel function in the erectile tissue. SOURCE: American Journal of Medicine, July 2008.


Geocaching setbacks

Hiding a geocache is no easy task.

You have to find somewhere interesting, nowhere near another cache, secluded enough to not be stumbled upon by accident and not on private land. And not only do you have to do all that; you also have to prove it to the moderators.

So - as I say - not easy, which of course we didn’t know when we decided to hide our own.

We thought we’d struck gold two weeks back when we found a large tree by a distinctive hole in a crumbling wall, and picked up enough rubble and debris to hide our cache quite safely. Then we found another one close by and I had to cycle back down there next morning and get it back without being seen.

So we tried again on Saturday night and found a cosy dark spot under the trunk of a fallen tree by the river, covered our box with leaves and bark and went back home to log it.

And the following morning it was duly rejected on the ‘can you prove it’ grounds.

So this morning, at seven-twenty-early, I was out there again taking it back. It was a beautiful time to be down by the river. A heavy mist was rising up from the pancake-flat surface of the water, from out of which came the disembodied voices of the ducks. The horses had been moved down to the water’s edge where they were having their breakfast as the low sun shot its first weak beams of the day through the trees.

There were a dozen walkers or more, all out with their dogs, which made things more difficult as the animals were excited by the crispy frost fizzing their feet. And it felt like a magical time to be walking by the river, and had I not had a train to catch I would have stayed much longer.

As it turned out, the trains were running late so perhaps I should have done.

Perhaps having your cache rejected is no bad thing.

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One Response to “Geocaching setbacks”

  1. James Says:

    Your Poll doesn’t have the Indie Nik. I can’t vote!

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