A new health study suggests that there is a link between men’s sexual activity and heart-disease risk. Apparently, men who shag two or three times a week are at a lesser risk of heart disease than men who reportedly have sex one a month.
“The Researchers found that there was an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease with decreasing frequency,” states the study, which was published in the American Journal of Cardiology. “Compared to men who reported sexual activity at least 2-3 times a week, men with sexual activity of once per month or less had a 45% increased risk of cardiovascular disease during the study period. The findings took into account factors such as age and ED status.”
Having frequent sexual activity might improve health through stress reduction and social support, especially if a man is in a steady relationship.
As if men needed another reason to fornicate, here’s a productive reason to do so, just strap up.
In a new report conducted by the University of Oxford in England, stored fat cells around the thigh and buttock area may actually be medically beneficial.
“This new article summarizes a body of research showing that such hip and thigh fat can help to reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease, said lead researcher Konstantinos Manolopoulos. “The review also suggests a mechanism for conveying those benefits.”
According to Manolopoulos and his colleagues in the latest issue of the International Journal of Obesity, although stomach fat is considered more metabolically active than lower body fat, it releases a substance called cytokines, which has been linked to cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance and diabetes. Scientists now think lower body fat, like that around the hips and thighs, produces beneficial hormones that protect against these diseases, although it is yet to be fully determined.
Evidence of this theory includes Cushings syndrome, in which a patient looses their hip and thigh fat while gaining stomach fat. These patients usually have an increased risk of diabetes and heart disease.
“As long as you are female and your hormones are female hormones you are protected from cardiovascular disease,” Manolopoulos said. “The moment you go into menopause and your hormones change, you lose your typical female appearance and you gain stomach fat and at the same time your risk for heart disease and diabetes becomes comparable to men of the same age.”
A California university is giving new meaning to the phrase higher learning/education. Oaksterdam Universityin Oakland is a training ground for students interested in benefiting form Cali’s flourishing medical marijuana business.
Apparently, the university is doing so well that it opened up a new 30,000 square foot facility on its campus to increase enrollment of their three-month course yesterday.
Oaksterdam – a mash up of Oakland and Amsterdam – University claims to be “America’s first cannabis college” and offers students classes on “cannabusiness,” patient relations and distribution among others.
You ever notice a homegirl of yours put on some extra baggage around her waist after settling down with their special someone? Well you’re not seeing things because according to a new scientific study, childless women with steady partners tend to put on sufficient weight during the length of their intimate relationship.
The study, conducted by Annette J. Dobson, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Queensland in Australia, found that the average 140 lbs. childless woman in a long-term relationship tended to gain 15 additional pounds within 10 years.
Although researchers don’t believe that having a partner causes metabolic changes, they do believe the weight gain among childless women with partners is almost surely affected by the change in lifestyle.
According to research conducted by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis continue to spread throughout the U.S. although the three are highly treatable.
“Chlamydia and gonorrhea are stable at unacceptably high levels and syphilis is resurgent after almost being eliminated,” said John Douglas, director of the division of sexually transmitted diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ”We have among the highest rates of STDs of any developed country in the world.”
Untreated, these three diseases can cause pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, ectopic pregnancy and can infect newborns.
Other findings in the CDC’s report were:
· Adolescent girls between the ages of 15 and 19 years old had the most chlmydia and gonorrhea cases of any age group at 409,531.
· African-Americans, who represent only 12 percent of the U.S. population, accounted for about 71 percent of reported gonorrhea cases and almost half of all chlamydia and syphilis cases in 2008.
· 63 percent of syphilis cases were among men who have sex with men.
Health officials state corporations are always part of the distribution of any vaccine. In addition to Goldman, 29 other companies including Time Warner have been selected for vaccine distribution.
Here’s some must-see TV, Discovery Health is premiering its hour-long special Strange Sex tonight at 10 p.m. (ET/PT) where they explore perplexing and sometimes scandalous sexual anomalies.
Strange Sex profiles four sexual disorders diagnosed in four individuals who were brave enough to discuss their adverse sexual conditions. The cases delve into:
Sex Addiction, where a woman has an insatiable need for sexual pleasure;
Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder, in which a woman suffers from unremitting bouts of sexual arousal that are described as “Tourette’s syndrome of the genitals,” by her doctor.
Sexomnia, where a woman has sex while sleeping and waking up unable to recall her sexual episode.
Sex Allergy, where a newly married young couple has unprotected sex for their first time only to find out that the wife is allergic to her husband’s sperm and experience difficulties bearing children.
