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		<title>Fertility Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alcohol abuse and drugs adversely affect the quality and quantity of sperm, reduce testosterone production and has contributed to erectile dysfunction. Drug abuse would reduce the density and the ability of sperm movement and increase the number of abnormal sperm. Moreover, it can lead to erectile dysfunction and loss of libido. Healthy living, adequate rest [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alcohol abuse and drugs adversely affect the quality and quantity of sperm, reduce testosterone production and has contributed to erectile dysfunction. Drug abuse would reduce the density and the ability of sperm movement and increase the number of abnormal sperm. Moreover, it can lead to erectile dysfunction and loss of libido.</p>
<p>Healthy living, adequate rest and minimize stress. Eat healthy foods and regular diet and adequate rest can minimize stress and will help the production of hormones that affect the development of sperm and testosterone production in the testes.</p>
<p>Avoid toxic materials. Avoid contact with toxic chemicals and avoid inhaling the smell of chemicals such as pesticides, herbicides, paint, wood varnish, glue, and heavy metals. Consult with your doctor, any prescription drug that should be taken. Some prescription drugs for the treatment of a disease have the effect of slowing the production of sperm. Consult a physician before receiving a prescription drug. Chemotherapy or radiation therapy can cause temporary or permanent infertility. If you have to undergo this procedure, consult your doctor for the best solution.</p>
<p>Some information about <a href="http://health.infoniac.com/fertility/">fertility</a> can also be found on the Health.Infoniac.com. You can read the articles about <a href="http://health.infoniac.com/">health</a> and fertility of men and women. Here you are given the opportunity to post your article and can vote on the health articles in their website. So, if you want to get health news, health tips, latest health products, healthy food, diet, sexual health, birth control, etc &#8230; Visit Health.Infoniac.com immediately.</p>
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		<title>Mind Over Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In science fiction and phantasy, authors often play with the idea of telekinesis, the ability of the mind to move objects at a distance. This reflects the idea that the mind is the most powerful part of the body. In one sense, this is true. In the long run intelligence always prevails over brute force. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In science fiction and phantasy, authors often play with the idea of telekinesis, the ability of the mind to move objects at a distance. This reflects the idea that the mind is the most powerful part of the body. In one sense, this is true. In the long run intelligence always prevails over brute force. But, for the best results, the mind and the body must be working well together. It&#8217;s entirely possible that the mind may come up with brilliant ideas but the weakness of the body prevents their implementation. Equally, if the mind finds the body distasteful or unacceptable in some way, this is not going to end well. Classic examples of this are those who grow depressed about the way they look or their lack of physical success. In sexual terms, one of the most common causes of erectile dysfunction is performance anxiety. In general, this applies to anyone due to appear before an audience for a performance of some kind.</p>
<p>It can be stage fright, working in a restaurant or bar serving people, or standing in front of a camera and trying to smile. More intimately, the pressure to perform sexually for the pleasure of the one you love can steadily become terrifying. When you have had failures, the fears grow steadily worse. You try all the harder but the fear gets in the way. Most then start to avoid situations of intimacy. Unable to maintain confidence, they prefer to avoid further failures. This presents a problem when it comes to treatment because it affects the way in which men react to sexual stimulation. When lovers are relaxed, arousal comes naturally from the anticipation of success. When the fear of failure dominates, confidence dies and there is no emotional response to the sexual stimulation. Without the signal from the brain, there will be no erection even though one of the drugs has been taken. As a result, men who have serious anxiety problems need counseling and therapy to help them come to terms with their own fears. Only then can they build frail confidence to try again. With a willing partner and, possibly, a suitable drug, the slow process of turning sexual activity back into a pleasure can begin.</p>
<p>For these purposes, the use of <a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/more-about-levitra/mind-over-matter.html">levitra</a> or one of the other erectile dysfunction drugs will be appropriate. Everything that can possibly be done to make success more likely should be done. This is completely the reverse of the successful lovers who experiment with <a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/">levitra</a> as a recreational drug. They want to find out whether the use of chemistry can make their current enjoyment even more powerful. With such people, the mind gets behind the body and pushes for success. With those suffering from performance anxiety, the mind must be convinced success is at least possible. Only then can success be achieved. If the first attempt proves a success, everything should probably be kept the same including the use of levitra. It cannot but help to have chemistry on your side, encouraging the brain that everything is possible.</p>
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		<title>How to live your life and enjoy great sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two conflicting sayings, &#8220;Nothing in life is free&#8221; and &#8220;The best things in life are free&#8221;. Truth can be only one, isn&#8217;t it? More often than not, there is a price tag attached to the choices you make, but not all prices have to be paid in money. For example, you can find [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are two conflicting sayings, &#8220;Nothing in life is free&#8221; and &#8220;The best things in life are free&#8221;. Truth can be only one, isn&#8217;t it? More often than not, there is a price tag attached to the choices you make, but not all prices have to be paid in money. For example, you can find joy in a relationship, the emotional capacity for love coming as a free gift when you get the body. This is not to deny there may be costs to love, but a successful relationship is priceless. However, to keep a relationship stable and successful usually requires a reasonably consistent level of sexual performance. Adult couples expect to be able to enjoy their time together in bed. Erectile dysfunction threatens this happiness and so requires treatment. Modern science has provided pills to be taken but this can overlook the reasons for the erectile dysfunction.</p>
<p>There are many things that have very dramatic effects. As people grow up, they are surrounded by role models and, to fit in, they often copy what they see others doing. This is wonderful if everyone around children eats healthy food in small portions. But the reality is that most people eat junk food in excessive portions. Adults who carry excessive weight are more likely to contract type 2 diabetes. This causes damage to the nervous system and usually causes erectile dysfunction. Obesity is also linked with high blood pressure and heart disease so sexual activity may become physically difficult if not dangerous. Those who are overweight may also not be considered attractive. This can make it challenging to find partners. How much food you eat is a choice. The decision to eat less can be made. You can also make a commitment to exercise. Why does all this matter?</p>
<p>A recent piece of informal research found there is a link between cities with cooking styles using large quantities of fat and the number of prescriptions written for <a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/a">levitra</a> and the other drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction. In northern cities which have active campaigns to force restaurants to abandon the use of trans fats and to put calorie counts on the menus, few prescriptions are written. If older people find sex more difficult, <a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/">levitra</a> is available to ensure those over sixty can carry on enjoying life to the full. Indeed, men over seventy in clinical trials have a more than satisfactory experience using cialis. The moral is clear. Those who make good lifestyle decisions get happiness &#8211; something that comes free.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all have seen numerous weight loss tips that could be all boiled down to some simple rules like eat less, exercise more and so on. Wrapped into different packages but having the same essence these tips sure sound very reasonable and promising, but bore the hell out of any thinking person by their simplicity [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We all have seen numerous weight loss tips that could be all boiled down to some simple rules like eat less, exercise more and so on. Wrapped into different packages but having the same essence these tips sure sound very reasonable and promising, but bore the hell out of any thinking person by their simplicity and impossibility to follow. Easier said than done, especially when you feel the drive to eat back the pounds you&#8217;ve lost with all that routine.</p>
<p>If you take a closer look at the psychological aspects of weight loss you will see that it&#8217;s quote complicated and the reasons for gaining weight are so varied and numerous that it would be much easier to just surrender and remain the same overweight inactive person that you probably feel like. Knowing how to deal with such weigh loss road blocks is essential because they can be harder to deal with than the actual eat less/work out more routine. And here are some tips that address namely such stops, and maybe they may sound quite unconventional but when following them you will actually feel that weight loss can be a lot easier than you&#8217;ve imagined.</p>
<p><strong>1) Do not leave your house for binge food.</strong></p>
<p>When you try to eat less you typically leave less food inside your house so that there won&#8217;t be a temptation for eating more than you should, right? No? Well, you should follow that rule very strictly. But even if you do follow it, there will be moments of temptation to leave your house and go buy something for a snack. Just an innocent snack or a chocolate bar, not more. Well, the very moment you think of it &#8211; grab on to this awareness and don&#8217;t leave your home. It&#8217;s better to put your house keys somewhere where you will be able to see yourself or feel your current weight &#8211; this will be a great discouragement for you to have a snack.</p>
<p><strong>2) Stop snacking if you&#8217;re already doing it</strong></p>
<p>We all love snacking, don&#8217;t we? And we all realize how it&#8217;s devastating for that &#8220;eat less&#8221; part of the weight loss formula. But it seems just like being unreal to avoid snacking when you have the opportunity. Well, it&#8217;s not a crime. But at some point when you&#8217;re a good half way into that bag of tasty cookies you have a flash in your mind saying &#8220;wait, what am I doing?&#8221; Now as soon as you get something like that in your mind, you should hold to that thought like a saving circle in the ocean and push it harder and further. It&#8217;s your only chance of escaping the binge food consumption state of mind and being able to receive signals like that and following them is a good chance that you will get through. Just don&#8217; forget that you have to actually stop eating when you get something like that. Or you can use a drug like <a href="http://www.phentermine-hcl.org/">Phentermine</a> to cope with that drive.</p>
<p><strong>3) Observe how much you eat</strong></p>
<p>Psychological studies have shown that people are less prone to eat more when they actually realize how much they eat. Of course, it doesn&#8217;t mean you have to leave all your food left-over at the table during the day. But eating from smaller plates and dishes really helps control your portions and eat as much as you really need, not more. Bigger plates make it easier for you to put more food in them and this means that you will still tend to eat more than you should. And you don&#8217;t need to buy <a href="http://www.phentermine-hcl.org/articles/weight-loss-tips.html">Phentermine</a> to do that.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has always been dangerous to work in mines. The roof may fall in and there are risks of flooding and explosion. Over the years, miners found that keeping canaries in the mines was a good early warning system. The birds were likely to die if there was a gas build up and this gave [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It has always been dangerous to work in mines. The roof may fall in and there are risks of flooding and explosion. Over the years, miners found that keeping canaries in the mines was a good early warning system. The birds were likely to die if there was a gas build up and this gave the men time to leave before there was an explosion. In every aspect of life, early warning systems are the key to survival. The more warning there is, the greater the number of people who can be saved. So it is with sexual health. Problems can be the first sign of more serious diseases or disorders. In women, a loss of libido can be a symptom of thyroid disease. Erectile dysfunction can be a symptom of cardiovascular disease.</p>
<p>If you watch movies or TV series, it&#8217;s unusual for the scripts to deal with relationships in trouble because of sexual difficulties. The mainstream media has the same problem as most people. Everyone finds it embarrassing and humiliating to talk publicly about sexual failure. Indeed, the improvement in treatments has made it more difficult. When men can buy pills over the internet without a prescription, no-one need know there were failures in the bedroom. Reputations must be maintained. As to women, most would like treatment but find many doctors patronizing and dismissive. Their problems remain hidden. Yet this desire for privacy from both genders is unwise. There is clear research evidence that people who regularly engage in satisfying sex live longer, cope well with stress, have a better immune system and enjoy a better quality of life. Getting treatment is the better option no matter embarrassing it may be to ask for help.</p>
<p>The cause of erectile dysfunction is easy to state. The arteries feeding blood into the penis fail to dilate. These arteries are one-quarter the diameter of the coronary arteries. If the small arteries are in trouble, the larger arteries may follow suit in about four to five years time. At this point, there is an irony. <a href="http://www.36hour-strong.com/articles/canaries-in-the-mines.html">Cialis</a> and the other drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction dilate the arteries and are also approved by the FDA for the treatment of poor artery performance in the chest. Innocently taking these drugs will delay the onset of high blood pressure and heart disease, but it will not prevent it. The arrival of erectile dysfunction is your canary in the mine. All doctors have received an advisory note that anyone over the age of 40 years coming in for a consult should be treated as a heart patient until there is evidence to the contrary. There are a good range of treatments to reverse the build up of plaque in the arteries. They start with a healthy diet and physical exercise, and then move into the drug cabinet. It is common sense to have a full physical check up if you have erectile dysfunction. Taking early action to avoid heart disease is worth it in the long term. In the short term, you can <a href="http://www.36hour-strong.com/">buy cialis</a> as a treatment for the erectile dysfunction. That will keep things going in the bedroom while the rest of your body recovers.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time travel always sounds quite an exciting prospect for everyone especially for scientists. If they could step into a TARDIS, they could go and observe or, if they wanted to risk prompting changes, they could ask the people involved what they were thinking. This is where all the excitement comes because the risk of changing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Time travel always sounds quite an exciting prospect for everyone especially for scientists. If they could step into a TARDIS, they could go and observe or, if they wanted to risk prompting changes, they could ask the people involved what they were thinking. This is where all the excitement comes because the risk of changing the past and creating paradoxes is entertaining, even if only for those interested in science fiction. Since there is no practical system for time travel, the researchers step forward with what they can dig up from old records. Now everyone gets into the game of interpreting the evidence to meet their expectations. When it comes to the history of sex, the interpretations grow further apart as each new author has their own agenda, e.g. to compare Michel Foucault with Germaine Greer with Pope Paul VI. So, looking at this history shows us centuries of various religions moralizing and philosophers theorizing about what it was for but, until recently, no serious interest from the medical profession. No-one had dared to study it by applying the scientific method to collect detailed evidence.</p>
<p>One of the problems was that, if you asked people about sex, they were embarrassed and tended to refuse answers. There were also professional difficulties for those who proposed to study sexuality. Such research was thought to betray unhealthy and prurient interests. Then along came William Masters and Virginia Johnson in St Louis. Not caring what the &#8220;establishment&#8221; thought, they invited people into their laboratory and began to monitor exactly what was happening in their bodies during arousal. As their research was published, it swept away the mythology and the embarrassment, finally allowing people to understand what was happening to their bodies.</p>
<p>Through this open door, a small army of modern researchers has entered and, with medical experts able to devise drugs like <a href="hhttp://www.36hour-strong.com/taking-cialis.html">cialis</a> to restore sexual function, the question is now being asked, &#8220;Have we gone too far?&#8221; Medicine has reduced complex desires and emotions to biology. If there is a problem, all you have to do is take a pill or have cosmetic surgery, and all will be well again. Except life is not always so simple and convenient. Science gives people the wrong expectations. Doctors cannot solve every problem. Worse, there are new myths about what the sexual norms have become. Although it&#8217;s true that <a href="http://www.36hour-strong.com/">cialis</a> allows sexual responsiveness for thirty-six hours, people have to eat and sleep. Even with the very best of the drugs inside you, you still get tired. So, it&#8217;s a balancing act. Without Masters and Johnson, people would have remained largely ignorant on all issues of sex and sexuality. The resulting development of cialis has improved the quality of life for millions of men. Yet everywhere you look now, you see sex and many now use erectile dysfunction drugs for recreational not medical purposes. People should not lose sight of how relationships work. Medicine has a role to play but people should be more interested in the needs of their partners.</p>
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		<title>Basic facts about analgesics</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all you have to understand what are analgesics. Simply put and analgesic medication is a painkiller, meaning its primary intention and use is to eliminate symptoms of pain. Usually this is achieved in two ways. The first way is to block the pain signals transferred to the brain through the means of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First of all you have to understand what are analgesics. Simply put and analgesic medication is a painkiller, meaning its primary intention and use is to eliminate symptoms of pain. Usually this is achieved in two ways. The first way is to block the pain signals transferred to the brain through the means of the nervous system. And the second one is making the brain interpret pain signals differently from what is common. Generally there are two types of analgesic medications: narcotics and non-narcotics.</p>
<p>Besides these two types of analgesics there are also other medications like aspirin and particular non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) that are commonly included and used as painkillers, but in fact they;re not. They provide some pain relieving effects but their primary purpose is elimination of inflammations, so including them to the class of analgesics is wrong.</p>
<p><strong>Non-narcotics</strong></p>
<p>Of all over-the-counter, non-narcotic painkillers the most popular is definitely acetaminophen. It is found in over 600 drugs, combined with other active elements for example in cold, flu or sinus infection medications. It is also available as a stand-alone drug. So when using it make sure you are not exceeding the dosage by combining it with drugs that contain acetaminophen, because an increased intake of this substance may damage your liver.</p>
<p><strong>Narcotics</strong></p>
<p>There are two main types of narcotic painkillers: opiates and opioids (substances derived from opiates). Opiates are the active chemicals that are contained in opium (the infamous liquid of white color that is extracted from the unripe seeds in poppies).</p>
<p>Opiates were previously widely used in medicine prior to the creation of effective opioids. But apart from analgesics effects the opiates provided, there were numerous side-effects that are very common for narcotics: delirium, hallucinations, loss of orientation, etc. This is why the use of painkillers in early days was quite limited and the effectiveness was traded for a certain price.</p>
<p>Opioids are considered any substance that affect the opioid receptors in the CNS (central nervous system) or gastointestinal tract. Opioids are usually divided into four main groups:</p>
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<li>Endogenous opioid peptides (substances produced within the human body such as endorphins, enkephalins, dynorphins)</li>
<li>Opium alkaloids (thebaine, morphine, codeine)</li>
<li>Partially-synthetic opioids (heroin, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, nicomorphine)</li>
<li>Fully synthetic opioids (demerol, <a href="http://www.tramadolbliss.com/blog/?p=11">tramadol</a>, methadone, propoxyphene, buprenorphine, butorphanol)</li>
</ul>
<p>Opioids are applied as highly effective painkillers in cases of chronic or severe pain (for example, <a href="http://www.tramadolbliss.com/">tramadol</a> is known as the most effective medication is case of chronic pain). In contrast to opitates, opioids don&#8217;t have the negative narcotic side-effects and also don&#8217;t exhibit an upper limit in dosage. If increased gradually (especially in cases of chronic pain) the dosage of opioids used can be that high that it would be fatal for a person if taking any other medications with such concentration.</p>
<p>There are numerous discussions on the addictive nature of opioids, with many doctors claiming that they can form a habit over the long term. This is true, and as with any habit there may be withdrawal effects taking place in case the treatment is ceased immediately. However, when using opioids you have to weight all the pros and cons especially when you&#8217;re dealing with chronic pain, like in the case of arthritis. Is addiction such a high price for a relief when you&#8217;re constantly tortured by pain? It&#8217;s up to you to decide.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The easy answer is to go on to the internet and buy one of the drugs (for example, levitra) from an online pharmacy. Except this leaves many other questions unanswered. Firstly, how many times have you failed to get or keep a hard erection. From time to time, almost every man has a less than [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The easy answer is to go on to the internet and buy one of the drugs (for example, <a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/levitra-fda.html">levitra</a>) from an <a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/">online pharmacy</a>. Except this leaves many other questions unanswered. Firstly, how many times have you failed to get or keep a hard erection. From time to time, almost every man has a less than perfect performance. There are many possible reasons for this from simple tiredness to an excess of alcohol or street drugs. So you have to decide when the quality of your erections falls and justifies some effort to get treatment. This decision has to be taken against a backdrop where erectile dysfunction medications have moved from a prescription only drug to a lifestyle choice. Many couples now take one or more of these drugs as an experiment or to enhance an already pleasurable experience. Instead of medicine, this is recreational.</p>
<p>The constant use of drugs may not be in your interests in this instance. Although the main drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction (viagra, cialis and levitra) are very safe and effective in all but the exceptional cases, the fact of erectile dysfunction, particularly in men over the age of 40 years, may be a first symptom of more serious medical problems. Even though you may not have any other symptoms, you will be safer if you have a full medical check-up. Why safer, you ask. The way your body produces an erection relies on the walls of the arteries leading into the penis dilating when you are sexually stimulated. This allows more blood to flow into the penis and inflates it into an erection. If something prevents the arteries from dilating, there is no erection. These arteries are about one-quarter the diameter of the primary arteries leading to the heart but, putting it simply, arteries are arteries.</p>
<p>If you have a problem with the narrow ones now, you may have a problem with the wider ones in about four or five years time. There are many reasons why the arteries may not dilate but the more worrying involve a hardening process when platelets are deposited from the blood. Left untreated, this leads to arteriosclerosis and potentially serious heart problems. All doctors were sent a medical advisory in 2006 which instructed them to deal with all men reporting erectile dysfunction as actual heart patients until the contrary is proved. This is a vital first warning symptom and a quick intervention with a change of lifestyle and treatment can restore health to the blood vessels and relieve the problem of erectile dysfunction. Leave it too long before you get treatment and there is no effective cure. The best you can hope for is treatment to prevent the situation from getting worse. This is not to say that drugs like cialis will not work. They will dilate the arteries during the early stages of arteriosclerosis. But there will come a point when the damage is too great and cialis will stop working. So the moral of this story is to get your doctor to check you out before you buy cialis online. Self-treatment in this instance is not a wise move.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the easiest thing in the world to say that the way you live your life affects the quality of your life. All kinds of judgements come into play. There can be unkind comments about couch potatoes who endlessly eat junk food and never exercise. There can be medical commentaries about health risks. Some stories [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s the easiest thing in the world to say that the way you live your life affects the quality of your life. All kinds of judgements come into play. There can be unkind comments about couch potatoes who endlessly eat junk food and never exercise. There can be medical commentaries about health risks. Some stories about people can be inspiring, others depressing. There are as many approaches to this issue as there are articles to write. Yet, there are some facts that cannot be denied. All the people who are overweight have an increased risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. Smokers have an increased risk of cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Worse, many people who have unhealthy lifestyles are seriously penalized as victims of discrimination &#8211; work opportunities are more limited, life insurance premiums are significantly higher, and so on. Yet there are no remedies for this discrimination because having an unhealthy lifestyle is not a disability like losing a leg in an accident. It&#8217;s a choice people make.</p>
<p>Ignoring the physical difficulties of sexual intimacy when the partners are significantly overweight, those who run into diabetes or heart disease will find all sexual activity restricted. Add in the effects of smoking and the risk to sexual function rises dramatically. A recent non-scientific survey into sexual health looked at the relationship between lifestyle and erectile dysfunction. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collect information about the rates of obesity, diabetes and smoking across the US. All these correlate to erectile dysfunction. The research team then examined data about exercise habits, discovered how many urologists were employed by hospitals in each city, and collected the data on the number of prescriptions written for erectile dysfunction drugs.</p>
<p>The results confirm that more prescriptions are written in southern cities where the rates of obesity are higher and people exercise less. In fact, Tulsa in Oklahoma came out as the least healthy city with the highest rate of prescriptions written. Northern cities like Boston and New York which have active campaigns to promote healthy eating, e.g. to ban the use of trans fat in all cooked food outlets, and extensive bans on smoking in public places, have the lowest rates of prescriptions written. The study is unscientific because not all prescriptions written are ever converted into drugs, and many people use the internet to buy <a href="http://www.36hour-strong.com/articles/lifestyle-and-sex.html">cialis</a> and the other erectile dysfunction drugs without a prescription. Nevertheless, the results are interesting and match common sense expectations. The message is clear. Both generally and in relation to sexual health, men improve their performance if they lose weight, quit smoking and start exercising on a regular basis. The risk of serious diseases reduces as weight falls and nicotine clears from the system. But if people ignore the risks, continue smoking and eat too much, they are likely to find themselves using <a href="http://www.36hour-strong.com/">cialis</a> at a young age and losing their sexual potency in their middle age. It&#8217;s hard to understand why anyone would make the deliberate choice to risk disease and lose sex.</p>
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		<title>Smoking is bad for your sexual health</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the pictures that have been added to cigarette packets in many parts of the world, it&#8217;s impossible for smokers to avoid understanding that smoking causes cancer. Yet the tobacco industry continues to sell high volumes of cigarettes and other products that allow people to smoke or consume nicotine. Once people are addicted to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks to the pictures that have been added to cigarette packets in many parts of the world, it&#8217;s impossible for smokers to avoid understanding that smoking causes cancer. Yet the tobacco industry continues to sell high volumes of cigarettes and other products that allow people to smoke or consume nicotine. Once people are addicted to the nicotine, they seem to care very little about what happens to their health. Everything is sacrificed for the pleasure of the drug once it hits the brain. Yet, cancer is only one of the dangers smoke brings to you. An equally important side effect of nicotine is that it&#8217;s a vasoconstrictor, i.e. it causes blood vessels to constrict, making the heart to pump harder and increasing the blood pressure. If people smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day, there is a serious risk this will develop into arteriosclerosis, a permanent hardening of the arteries, and ultimately lead to heart disease.</p>
<p>The main physical cause of erectile dysfunction is the arteries leading into the penis do not dilate or, having dilated, then constrict before sexual activity is over. Because nicotine constricts the arteries, smokers are significantly more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction than men who have never smoked. There is, however, some moderately good news. If you are not a heavy smoker and you quit while reasonably young, the walls of your arteries will slowly begin to resume normal activity. But if you delay quitting until arteriosclerosis has set in, there is no remedy. The erectile dysfunction is likely to be permanent even if you quit. There is further news that, depending on your point of view, may be bad. The longer you smoke, the greater the chance the nicotine will reduce the level of sperm you produce. Thus, even if you do manage ejaculation, you may not become a father. As an aside, the risk of infertility is significantly greater if you smoke cannabis.</p>
<p>The drugs like <a href="http://www.36hour-strong.com/articles/smoking.html">cialis</a> used to treat erectile dysfunction are vasodilators, i.e. they encourage the walls of your arteries to dilate. If the walls have been damaged by smoking, the drugs will not work well or at all. This should all be news encouraging you never to smoke or, if you have the habit, to quit immediately. The risks to your health are not worth the short-term pleasure you get from the nicotine. This does not deny the difficulty many have. Nicotine is addictive and it can be hard to break the dependence. Indeed, many manage to give up for a few weeks and then lapse. There are products to help you quit and counseling can help support you through the worst of the withdrawal symptoms. If you find yourself craving, think of the potential loss of sex as the price you may pay for lighting the next cigarette. <a href="http://www.36hour-strong.com/">Cialis</a> is good and will keep you going for a while but, in the end, impotence will catch you out (assuming the cancer does not get you first).</p>
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