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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Selfridges, Birmingham Bull Ring

Turns out Birmingham is actually rather fab. It’s about ten years since I was last there so I was expecting the nasty, grum concrete-coated town I’d seen back then. What we found, though, was a vibrant, clean, and achitecturally stunning city. The shopping is fantastic, the people are friendly and the food great. When you can find any, that is.

We headed out at about nine last night and walked around and around and around the empty streets. We seemed to have the run of the city to ourselves and none of the passers-by seemed to know where we could get any food at that time of night. For ages it looked like everywhere was closed and our only option would be a greasy chip shop near the ring road.

Eventually, almost right back at our hotel (purely by chance, rather than design) we found a fantastic little curry house, where I had Kofta and Paul settled on Korma. It was very different to the Koftas you get in Soho: brown and meaty, in spite of the fact it was vegetarian, and full of nuts, as well as the usual spinich.

After over an hour of walking around the cold streets, something hot (in both senses of the word) was just what we needed, before finding a bar in which to read the local papers and have a drink.

This morning started at a fairly leisurely pace with a mini-lie in for our last morning away, then coffee and eventually a mooch around the shops - particularly the fantastic Selfridges, which is as cool on the inside as it is on the outside.

By two, though, thoughts were turning to home and the long journey ahead. It’s just as well they did, too. We left fairly sharpish, but still didn’t get home until well gone half seven. The route plan we were following was obscure and out of date, and got us lost in the middle of the Essex countryside (yes, Essex does have countryside) so all in all we were driving for over five hours, excluding a stop in the terminally dull Huntingdon.

Now that we’re back here I’d happily set out and do the whole thing over again. There’s so much of the UK I’ve still not seen, in spite of all the other places I’ve been in the world.

I feel the Lonely Planet Britain coming in very handy again before too long.

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