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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The gym is your friend

I had good intentions of being up early and doing a good hour and a half at the gym before work.

And I failed.

That’s not altogether a bad thing, though, as it meant I got an extra hour’s sleep, and went this evening instead. Coming out of the changing toom I bumped into Kevin trying to push some weights with his legs. I told him it was the first time I’d seen him there. He said it was the first time he’d been.

I’d not been for three weeks myself, but didn’t tell him for fear it would evolve into a holiday chat best saved for the pub. So anyway, I was surprised how difficult I found my first session back. Nibbling pizza and sitting in a car for fourteen days apparently does nothing for your fitness levels. I worked hard, though, and for the rest of the evening I’ve felt springing and bright, and righteous about having spent the last two hours flopping around in the lounge sipping peach tea.

Trying to take my mind of the running machine, I wondered why we were all there. Not in an existential kind of way - I didn’t want to take my mind that far off it - but why we all go to the gym. I decided we must all be vein. Sure it makes you feel better, but it also makes you look better, and if you don’t do that purely for your partner then it must be because you want to show off how slim and strong you are to those around you.

I feet a bit of a sham after that.

But then, on the cross trainer, too far from the tellies to hear them, I had a revelation. It’s the people who don’t go to the gym who are vein, not the ones you do. If you go to the gym you admit something needs to be changed. Skip the gym and you’re in denial.

It’s warped logic … but it helps me feel good about working out.

I’ve been quite artistic since being back from holiday. I thought my banners were looking a little stale so have produced a series of eleven new tops for each of the pages of this site. All are pictures I took in Iceland. It’s a kind of 90-pixel-high gallery.

I’ve also got really interested in panoramic images. Now that I have a good camera I’ve got plenty of room for cropping while still retaining fairly large pictures, and have used images I took in both Iceland and Lithuania and produced two panoramas, each over a metre long. It’s taken around half a day to get each one looking the way I want, and the files are each around 120MB, but if I can find a way of printing them out I think they should look fairly good.

I’ve produced some thumbnails for the site as obviously they are far too large to load onto it in their completed format.

Below: Panorama of Trakai Castle, Lithuania. Produced using ten photos. Complete print size: 189cm x 30cm.

Panorama of Trakai castle, Lithuania

Below: Panorama of Eiriksjokull and Langjokull glaciers seen from Husafell, Iceland. Produced using eight photos. Complete print size: 147cm x 30cm.

Panorama of two glaciers in Iceland

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