Sex, seniors and coffee-drinking habits.Sex, seniors and coffee-drinking habits At least one cup of coffee per day appears to help keep a senior citizen's sex life perking. That's the conclusion drawn from a study of 744 noninstitutionalized men and women aged 60 and older. Ananias C. Diokno and his colleagues at the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. in Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as found that 62 percent of married elderly women who drank coffee daily were sexually active, compared with 38 percent of similar women who did not drink coffee. For men, a daily dose of coffee would appear to stave off potency problems: 59 percent of married men who didn't drink coffee reported trouble getting or maintaining an erection. Only 36 percent of married men who did drink coffee reported similar problems, the team reports in the January ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE The Archives of Internal Medicine is a bi-monthly international peer-reviewed professional medical journal published by the American Medical Association. Archives of Internal Medicine . Diokno says he believes caffeine may hold the secret to a better sex life for senior citizens. Caffeine belongs to the family of methylxanthines, potent central nervous system stimulants Central Nervous System Stimulants Definition Central nervous system (CNS) stimulants are medicines that speed up physical and mental processes. known to enhance the body's response to sensory stimuli. On the other hand, the correlation between coffee and sexual activity may be a statistical artifact A distortion in an image or sound caused by a limitation or malfunction in the hardware or software. Artifacts may or may not be easily detectable. Under intense inspection, one might find artifacts all the time, but a few pixels out of balance or a few milliseconds of abnormal sound . Older people who drink coffee may tend to have other attributes related to their sexual behavior sexual behavior A person's sexual practices–ie, whether he/she engages in heterosexual or homosexual activity. See Sex life, Sexual life. . For example, Diokno says, elderly people who choose to drink coffee despite accounts of caffeine's adverse effects may do so because they have fewer medical problems--such as heart disease--that might lead a person to limit sexual activity. |
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