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.

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A good day to go

Today was a good day to leave the office. Tomorrow is the start of a three day tube strike that would make it easy to get into work, but hell to get home.

Leaving the office for a fortnight has got me weeks ahead with my work. It will get me away from a keyboard for a full fourteen days. It will stop me looking at a screen, other than the display on my camera, for a fortnight. It will break the daily monotony of riding on cramped and airless trains.

It will be my first break since Christmas.

It seems when you are going to Iceland everyone has a tale to tell. Clive went there by accident once. I never did quite work out why. Lars stopped there for refuelling when flying from Sweden to Orlando. The landing gear on the plane froze and the pilot had to bang it down on the runway to smash the ice before zipping straight back up again for a second approach to land for real. Chris the Midnight Weatherman knew someone whose plane slammed down hard in the runway as the pilot fought not to send it careering off the apron in the bad weather.

Naturally I can hardly wait.

So today was spent tidying ends. Putting an autoresponder on my office email. Recording a greeting for my voicemail, deflecting calls from my number, popping into ITN to record twenty minutes of chat for this week’s programme.

It was strange to be in the studio at lunchtime, especially studio 1, when we normally do our pre-records in studio 2 and only the live show in 1. The time flew by even quicker than it does when we’re doing the real show, though, and before we knew it our time was up and we’d barely covered anything on the impromptu list of topics we’d drawn up.

Gordon said I had the look of a man who was going on holiday.

I think he meant I was smiling.

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