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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Let them eat cake

Porters Bar at lunchtime, for an extended liquid lunch in honour of K’s birthday. Nobody could quite decide whether it had been redecorated, but the dark red walls and bizarre moaning music made it feel like we were drinking in the belly of a whale.

Most unsettling.

That turned out to be the start of an afternoon of stodgy chocolate cake, sugary donuts and a bag of free pastries from the coffee shop where they’re getting to know our order before we even give it.

Meanwhile, the men who have been clambering around the outside of our building for the last four weeks hoiked their scaffolding up a bit higher so it now stretches up past my window. No doubt they’ll be gawping in from tomorrow onwards and I’ll be sitting there feeling self conscious.

How strange. Typing that I’ve just remembered the word ‘bogging’ - they’ll be bogging at us all day… etc. A linguistic relic of school days.

So anyway, after that much sugary badness I was determined to go to the gym and run it all away, and was hoping for a swift exit. That plan rather collapsed when a whole load of copy arrived at half five and I was stuck there until eight getting it edited ready for the morning.

Hmmm….

Broken points on the way home left us stranded at some grotty station west of here so I finally got to the running machines at half nine. Not the best time of day to be starting out on a workout, and it’s left me sitting here with wobbly legs. I think I ran too far too fast.

Must sleep, though. Tomorrow has to be an early start, and Wednesday even earlier.

Why can’t mornings start at eleven?

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One Response to “Let them eat cake”

  1. Krist Says:
    May 20th, 2003 at 10:50 am

    That is indeed a valid question, Nik.

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