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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My big fat mouth

I could quite happily (and quite easily) have fallen asleep at the gym last night, so of course I was out like a light when my head hit the pillow, and I felt a lot better for it this morning. Now, though, just getting in from work at almost eleven, it’s back to square one.

It was my own fault, really, suggesting a five-page feature mid-afternoon without really thinking through the fact it would need writing (and editing) by tomorrow lunchtime. So, I condemned Mark and myself to a late night in the lab testing and typing and testing and typing and… you get the idea.

We did it, though. Four thousand or so words, and a large batch of pictures in just six hours. Now why can’t I churn out 4,000 words of the book in that amount of time? I’ve done it now and then, but if I could do it every time I’d be racing through, rather than plodding along at 10,000 words a week. I think it’s because we were writing it together, as a team, like the comedy writers on Frasier.

I don’t think our feature is going to be as funny as an episode of Frasier, though.

So, we left some time after nine and I ate junk on the train home, standing by the doors so I didn’t annoy everyone else with the smell of chips, then sat and read proofs while the guy beside me read them over my shoulder. No harm in running them past two pairs of eyes, I guess…

Arrived home to plaintive miows from the other side of the front door, and a little kitty-cat sitting cross-legged. Usually she’d run straight to her food bowl to have her back scratched while she munched on biscuits but instead she looked at her litter tray (still unused - she is very neat and tidy) and ran between it and the back door. It’s strange how animals can find ways to communicate with their far less intelligent owners.

As Luca so eloquently put it, ‘dogs have masters, cats have staff’.

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