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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Vanessa from LINX cancelled in the end, so I called Virgin Mobile instead and got through to the same music line I’d listened to for an hour and 35 minutes last night. I tried calling my voicemail again and pressed the requested 1 to discuss reconnection, but that put me through to the One2One operator who could do nothing about the Virgin Mobile service. She gave me an alternative number, but it was unobtainable. I tried the original number again when I got into work, and after half a track of Robbie Williams it was answered. I told the woman how long I’d been holding on last night. ‘Oh,’ she said. ‘It’s closed at that time of night.’ I asked her why they told you to hang on if it was closed and she said that was just the way it was.

When she’d charged the remaining balance to my credit card I hunted through the Virgin Mobile web site for a feedback form, filled it out and clicked ‘Send’. The result was an error message. Eight times (although, as I found out later, my message had gone through anyway - it was just the redirection that was off centre).

So, I resorted to traditional journalistic methods and sent the press guy a stroppy note, signing off:

“The reason that I chose Virgin Mobile in the first place is that I am a technology journalist and had trialled the service as part of my job and been very impressed with it. Sadly, your totally inadequate customer support structure now makes me doubt I will ever recommend your services again.”

He wrote back within an hour, while I was browsing the Carphone Warehouse site to see what Orange was offering to say he’d forwarded my mail to customer services and hoped that my view of the service had not been spoilt too much.

Hmmm.

The rest of the day was spent with proofs again. The reviews section had to be finished by this evening so it could be sent off to repro, so I didn’t get out of the office until after 8. The trains were surprisingly quiet, considering it was a Friday.

Met Paul for fish and chips, and watched the first episode of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which he’d recorded off the telly earlier in the week. It’s not aged as badly as everyone in the office had made out, and it’s no worse than an early-80s Doctor Who. I was never into the books, but it was an interesting TV culture point.

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