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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Tenerife

Tenerife sun
Already missing the Tenerife Sun

Having just arrived home, to grey skies and drizzle, I’m feeling tanned, and already missing the Tenerife sun.

We flew back last night - very late - and landed at almost one this morning. Allowing for some protracted time-passing at the baggage caroussel, watching two stroppy American teenagers insult their house-sized mother as she was wheeled around on a beeping tractor, and passing out through customs and passport control, it was closer to two by the time we left the airport. I’m glad I opted to take a hotel for the night rather than a taxi all the way home.

After the Tenerifian opulence, though, the Gatwick Holiday Inn just felt a bit… well, thin.

And it smelt a little bit, too. Fortunately I was so tired I was asleep before I finished reading the first page of my book, and knew nothing until the alarm at nine this morning, when I discovered this dowdy weather. Has it been like this all week?

Paul kindly came to pick me up, and we headed out in the direction of what we thought might be Guildford. After too much talking and not enough sign-watching, though, we found ourselves heading towards the Kentish border, and so scrapped our plans for a half day in the university town in favour of Tunbridge Wells instead. Neither of us had ever been before.

Turns out it’s actually rather nice. In places it feels like a seaside down. It’s built on the kind of hill that might kill a pensioner, and has some impressively-fronted buildings, with iron-runged balconies that curve around the contours of the back streets like an inverted railway line.

It also has a preponderance of greasy cafes, which is not so nice, but does reinforce the seaside feel of the place.

We stayed two hours, before returning to the car and heading for home once again, listing to the dreadful Live8 coverage on the radio. The Radio 1 presenters had gone into ego overdrive; so excited to be there, they were talking over half the acts, and we eventually switched to the commercial network which was actually doing a far more credible job of the whole thing.

I haven’t listened to any of it since we got home; I’ve slipped back into iTunes while fiddling around with opening post and picking the photos off my camera cards.

To that end, here’s one of the whales we saw on our catamaran ride on Thursday evening.

Whale fin

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