July 31, 2007

Obesity And Erectile Dysfunction: Another Sad Story, Same Happy Ending

In the pantheon of contemporary culture, neither Adonis nor Aphrodite has love handles.
But two thirds of Americans do. Yet, contrary to conventional stereotypes, their excess weight hasn0t hampered their interest in having a healthy sex life. In fact, research shows that overweight men are just as interested in sex as the next guy; they just may not be as able to perform.
Now, when it comes to performance anxiety, low self-esteem about body image can be a real impediment to confidence, so that may account for some of the problem.
But experts say that 90 percent of erectile dysfunction is physical in origin, not psychological. In large-scale studies, nearly 80 percent of men who reported having erectile dysfunction were also overweight or obese.
So perhaps it won0t be a surprise that a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has yielded some promising news about resolving this sensitive problem, and it doesn0t have anything to do with little blue pills you hear advertised during major sporting events.
The research in question was a two-year study conducted at the Second University of Naples, Italy. The subjects were recruited from a campus weight-loss clinic. They were all obese men between the ages […]

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