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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I feel worn out now the weekend is over. Yesterday spent working and today spent… erm… working.

Still, Sundays are fun, even if they do call for a train to London earlier than I’d like. I got to ITN by half ten - an hour before I needed, and sat on the settee where guests are deposited to run over my questions and scripts.

It’s nice being in at that time. The sun comes in through the glass roof of the atrium and with so few people around it feels like you’ve been let into a bit of a secret just being there. Perhaps it’s also because I’m not arriving after already spending a whole day in an office so I’m still fresh and awake.

Anyway, after last week’s show, which I was not completely happy with until I listened to it back, I’m very pleased with the way today went.

The hour absolutely flew by to such an extent that I looked at the big studio clock as we were starting to item scheduled for 13h20 and I saw it was gone half past already. The 13h30 segment rolled in at 13h40 and what we’d planned for the last slot never made it to air.

I’d far rather that happened than anything had to be stretched longer than it should just to fill time - that would sound awful on such a fast-moving show.

I think it was the first interview that threw the timing off. Professor Jacqui from University College London, measuring how much damage my activities do to the planet. I was shocked at the results. I only fibbed once - slightly - saying I did a long-haul flight every month so it would illustrate the point being made far more effectively. That used to be the case but has tailed off in recent years. Anyhow, it turns out that with that much travel I’d need to equivalent of 13 hectares of productive land to support my lifestyle. The average is five. An American uses 10. The average resident of the African continent uses just three and a bit.

Of course, if I answered the questions in relation to the way I live now I’d be more in line with everyone else, but I guess I should spend a couple of years living hermit-like to balance things out.

Read a German guide book on my pollution-free train home, preparing for my pollution-free train journey around Germany next month, then settled in front of the telly for some classic X Files.

Spending a fortnight cat-sitting at mum’s has brought out bad habits in me. I never normally watch TV. This weekend I’ve watched at least four hours of rubbish already.

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