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Studies published by the medical and health community are unanimous. As much as forty percent of men in North America experience some form of sexual health dysfunction. Because many men refuse to face the truth, several experts believe the true figure to be much higher.

Health diseases, such as cholesterol, hypertension and diabetes, are common causes for erectile dysfunctions. However, lifestyle choices like drinking and smoking are also a major factor causing sexual health disruptions and are often overlooked. In reality, drinking and smoking have a negative effect on the normal flow of blood and directly interfere with male sexual performance.

Various studies have established a direct correlation between a quality sex life and a healthy blood flow. While diet, exercise and appropriate supplements effectively promote the sexual performance of men by maintaining and enhancing their level of libido, sperm production and motility and sexual activity, they do not guarantee positive results for people who smoke and drink large quantities of on a daily basis. Not to mention men that consume drugs such as cocaine, heroine and ecstasy which interfere even more with their blood flow or their stamina.

A recent study conducted by the Section of Endocrinology of the Lahey Hitchcock Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts, revealed that smoking causes an important reduction in the number of spontaneous erections occuring during sleep. These erections are one of the most significant indication of a quality blood flow and good sexual health. A drop in the frequency or intensity of erections indicate a risk that some form of erectile dysfunction may develop in the short run. The study has also shown that refraining from smoking for as little as 24 hours brought about a dramatic increase in the quality of spontaneous erections. Needless to say, smoking also has several other “side effects” such as high blood pressure and lung cancer.

Another study conducted by the Department of Psychiatry from the University Medical School of Lubeck, Germany, concluded that heavy drinkers suffer more often from erectile dysfunction than those having an occasional drink. Alcohol tends to induce a pleasant state of relaxation and is generally thought to have a positive effect on the libido. Nothing is further from the truth. It is a suppressant and has a major negative impact on the libido. It also reduces the ability for men to achieve and maintain a quality erection.

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which is managed and operated by the University of California, has conducted its own study regarding the effects of smoking among teenagers. Their findings were frightening. They revealed that smoking has a disastrous impact on the quality of semen and that teenagers who are heavy smokers are jeopardizing their chances to have children and also increasing the risk of having children who suffer from various genetic problems due to the damaged DNA received from the father or mother.

Let’s cite one last study, conducted by The University of Berne, Switzerland. The results of their own research unveiled facts backing the findings of the University of California. Statistical analysis conducted in Switzerland demonstrated significantly lower semen quality in smokers compared with non-smokers. Sperm concentration was also strongly affected.

Men are free to make their own decisions. Freedom of choice is an important principle that comes with consequences. Not even the energy of youth can offset the toll that smoking and drinking are bound to take on male sexual health. There are some things that should be sacrificed for the sake of a healthy and satisfying sex life. Let me ask you this delicate question : Should drinking and smoking be one of those?

Copyright 2006 Marc Deschamps

About The Author

Marc Deschamps is the editor of For-Men-Only-Magazine.com, a free online publication dedicated to the sexual health of the modern man. For more articles on male sexual health, visit http://www.for-men-only-magazine.com

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My name is Kate Loving Shenk and I am a Blog-a-holic.

Blog-a-holism can be defined as when you have 4 or more blogs you religiously add content to.

I presently have 11 blogs. I think I need to stop here and now.

Unlike Alcoholism or other kinds of drug addiction, I am strengthening my brain nerves and muscles and those tiny tendrils that send messages down my spine and to all parts of my body.

I now feel constantly tingly all over!

While my friends sit with puzzle books in the attempt to prevent Alzheimer’s, I just write my blogs with the intention of enjoying my new found prolific writing habit.

And yes, my brain loves it. My heart loves it, too.

My health is vibrant, alive and happy.

Writing blogs and dancing are beautiful companion activities.

One hastens circulation, the other increases inspiration.

Doing one leads to the other.

In fact, writing blogs is my dance partner, my love, the way I measure my steps, moves and grace in this world.

Writing prolifically isn’t the discipline I feared it would be. In fact, it is the opposite. Discipline implies some sort of concerted effort, one that is performed with a sense of duty, grim, grit and humorless determination.

Blog-a-holism goes hand and hand with reading 3-5 books at one time. Thankfully on the Dogs And Dolphins Ning, Ildiko Minko has created a book discussion forum so the book-a-holics in the group can write about sudden flashes of idea-spiration and write about these as the spirit so moves.

Blogs, books and pen-a-holism is the holy trinity of the Internet thinking world.

Nurses used to be able to get pens galore from pharmaceutical drug representatives, but our hospital passed a “no solicitation policy.” These pens and gadgets are a thing of the past. We get pens with hospital logo printed on them. I do have a collection of those.

But these days, I buy my pens at super markets and office supply stores and have collected quite the stash, befitting a-holic status!

Fountain pens leak ink at inopportune times. Yet, i love the idea of a fountain pen that writes well and smoothly.

The cheap Sheaffer fountain pens that Natalie Goldberg recommended in her early writing books were fun, but aren’t on the market anymore.

Did 9/11 take those beauties away along with free speech, the Geneva Convention and Freedom of the Press?

Blogging is the greatest guarantee that I can say whatever I want to say, and others may either read or not read.

What a beautiful medium.

Blogging is done for a variety of reasons: for business, promotion of products or of oneself, or as a diary, and in the process people meet and get to know you.

They bond with you and want to read what you have to say.

At first, I wrote on my blogs, seemingly all alone, perhaps with angelic protection, with 2 dogs lying at my feet, or barking to play ball, but mainly my blogs, my dogs, my computer and the thousands of thoughts vieing for headline attention.

Submitting posts is an act of letting go.

By releasing the words into cyberspace, I am letting go of control. I visualize happy people receiving my words, gaining awareness and enlightenment from them.

Political blogs inform political discourse in America today. The real truth is suppressed by the American mainstream media. While young men and women are killed in Iraq and elsewhere, for instance, the main focus of the nightly news is the latest escapades of Brittany Spears, Paris Hilton or any one else who serves the purpose of diverting the mind from substance thus feeding the public with mind numbing, mindless “interest stories.”

The Political Blogosphere has given us a place to go for uncensored news.

The political Blogosphere is the last bastion of a true democracy where free speech is revered and upheld as sacred.

Examples of political blogs are The Huffington Post, Booman Tribune, Daily Kos and many more.

Two of the eleven blogs I contribute to weekly are political in nature.

No one censures my words, except myself.

And in the end, the beauty of blogging is the fact that I can say whatever I want to say, and choose my words wisely and consciously.

Meanwhile, every week I add blog posts to at least 7 of my eleven blogs.

I listen to inward flashes of impressions and thought fragments, feelings, memories and then these coalesce into ideas that form into articles, blog pieces and eventually e-books.

This is the greatest immune enhancer on the planet today!

Blog-a-holism: the mother of all other addictions, replacing those former habits that destroy mind, body and spirit.

I am a Blog-a-holic, and am happy to take this secret out of the closet forever.

About The Author

Kate Loving Shenk is a writer, healer, musician and the creator of the e-book called “Transform Your Nursing Career and Discover Your Calling and Destiny.” Click here to find out how to order the e-book: http://www.nursingcareertransformation.com Check Out Kate’s Blog: http://www.nursehealers.typepad.com

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Alcohol poisoning needs immediate medical attention to make sure that the vital system of the body remains balanced and not impaired dangerously. Some think that the treatment is as easy as sleeping the alcohol off, but the treatment for alcohol poisoning is a bigger deal than that.

Vomiting is the easiest treatment for alcohol poisoning. When intoxication happens, the risk of choking on your own vomit is very high especially when the person is unconscious. So it is advisable to turn an unconscious person to lie sideways because this is the surest and safest position to avoid choking and ensure open airways. There are many cases of intoxication leading to death for this very reason, they are left unattended and choked during vomiting and an airway becomes clogged.

Hypothermia is when alcohol lowers the temperature of the body due to constriction of the blood vessels. Excessive levels of alcohol intake can induce this dangerous condition. Usually drunks are covered in sweat or vomit and are left lying down wet. This is a dangerous state of the body and someone can die if warned up too quickly. In emergency rooms, the treatment to alcohol poisoning is to apply warm blankets and intravenous. Giving of intravenous fluid as the treatment for alcohol poisoning can also help to rehydrate the body of possible fluid loss due to excessive sweating and vomiting. The fluid of choice is usually glucose; not only for warming and to rehydrate the body, but also to bring up the glucose level to a safe and acceptable level.

Reduced Consciousness and Confusion: Alcohol content is usually the reason for a lower oxygen level thus resulting to a weird bizarre behaviour and confusion for other people. Air management and maximizing air to reduce consciousness are the quickest treatment of alcohol poisoning. Visual observations as well as medical intervention are needed to ensure the safety of the person.

This experience makes you feel sick and their integrity and dignity can also be affected. Some people do not remember what happened when they were intoxicated and often shame themselves after the fact. Drinking should be fun and enjoyable, but excessive drinking takes the fun out of a happy occasion and risks you and your health to a permanent danger. Always remember the treatment to alcohol poisoning to know what to do the next time you encounter someone with the same problem.

People should always put in mind the quickest treatment for alcohol poisoning; know their alcohol limit and stop when they are still ahead. A wild night of confusion and drunkenness is not worth the shame and hangover you’ll feel the next day.

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It has been seen alcohol poisoning is still a relatively new term in the dictionary of alcoholics even though this is something that occurs to thousands of people in US alone. There have been studies conducted on the effects of poisoning, which reveal that 50,000 people go through alcohol poisoning a year. It also revealed that each year the numbers are just increasing and can prove to be fatal. It has been seen that alcohol poisoning has serious effects on the physical and mental health of the body and can also lead to death.

Remember that the term alcohol poisoning is very different from the usual problems of consumption and then passing out or becoming unconscious. If you are suffering from alcohol poisoning, then you would be unable to walk or remain conscious, even if there are various others to help you out. Some of the worst effects of are on the brain and people suffering from the same are in a comatose state. This also leads to the triggering loss of brain cells and there are many people who had been suffering from alcohol poisoning, and their memories had been affected by the same.

Alcohol poisoning can lead to loss of memory amongst some of the common side effects of this problem. There are many people who have suffered from alcohol poisoning at some stage of their life and they have been unable to recover from the same mentally. Poisoning occurs when you have ingested more alcohol than you can process. But remember that even though there is a cure to this problem it is best to avoid too much alcohol all together. Also you should keep in mind that there are various kinds of drugs that may result in this problem.

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