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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We’ve swapped a couple of emails, but I’ve not chatted to producer Sam since the last edition of London This Week when I signed off, hung up my ITN headphones for the last time and we walked to the Grays Inn crossroads together to say goodbye. So, it was a lovely surprise to hear her voice on my mobile in the middle of yesterday morning.

She was lining up guests for LBC drivetime, so after a chat about this and that and nothing in particular I agreed to sit by my phone at 16h35 and talk about spam.

I’d been listening to the show on the net, so it was most bizarre switching it on again after the interview to hear myself carry on talking for a couple of minutes. There was quite a delay. No sooner had it finished than Kev sent a quick mail to say he’d heard it and correctly spotting it hadn’t been the ISDN. It felt strange going back to doing radio by phone.

Anyhow, that reminded me to dig out a new batch of sites for Sunday night’s slot on Through the Night, and I came up with some good stuff that I think we’ll have fun playing with, and they went down well in the office.

Spent the whole of this monrning blitzing the flat. It looks all neat and scrubbed now, with straight edges, and carpet that stands to attention. I’d only been intending to do a quick hoover, but got carried away. It was probably a work avoidance tactic - avoiding thinking about holidays, which are starting to get very complicated.

Russia is a no-no. Once again I’ve left it a bit too late to get it properly sorted out, and Norway is looking less likely since I discovered that the tourist season comes to an abrupt end on September 1st - less than a month from now. That would make getting north of the Arctic Circle decidedly tricky, so perhaps both of those projects will have to be pushed back until next year.

Plan C, overland to Italy, which looks a lot easier than I’d thought it might be. There’s a pretty fast rail corridor from London right down to Milan, which is a hub, so I sat down with the German Rail site again and planned some connections.

Chelmsford - London - Paris - Milan - Rome - Pompei (via Napoli) - Venice - Ljubljana (Slovenia) - Paris (via Saltzburg) - London - Chelmsford

All of that in two weeks, with time for a day in Milan (been there before), 4 in Rome, 2 in Pompei and 3 in Ljubljana. I always did want to see Europe by train, so assuming that all comes off (no doubt it will actually go through some serious tweaking) I’ll have done a fair bit of it over the years.

I’ve given up on it for the rest of the day. Tonight it’s curry with Mark T and Ja and tomorrow, hopefully, the Flugtag - assuming the weather holds out.

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