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Nookie Does a Body Good!

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Lenore Surdez

This could possibly the best news ever: Getting it on is soooo good for your health! Here are just a few pluses about why passionate encounters are important part of a health regime.

Feeling stressed? Do the wild thing and the wilder the better (sex burns calories the same as any other form of exercise) and reduces stress! Those who have their fair share of nookie handle stress better. The release of orgasm will get even the most anxious lover totally relaxed.

Insomniac? Try some passion before bed time…sweet dreams, snookums!

Marvin Gaye sang about “SEXUAL HEALING”…. why not a sexual workout? You can have many of the same benefits of spending that time in the gym, including improving circulation with a cardio-vascular workout, lowering cholesterol numbers and the releasing those brain chemicals called endorphins that make one feel oh so good (reduces vulnerability to depression, too!) by indulging in a good sexual workout. Would you rather run miles and miles and miles or have sex three times a week for one year? Running approximately 75 miles equals 3 passionate lovemaking sessions! WHY RUN…stay in bed! Both activities burn the same number of calories, too, (about 7,500) but having sex reduces wardrobe needs, travel time to the gym, does away with costly membership fees, saves gasoline, etc. Passionate lovemaking - burns approximately 150 calories in a half-hour – it’s regular exercise!

Nookie boosts immunity! Dr. Carl Charnetski, professor of psychology at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA and co-author of Feeling Good is Good For You, states people who reported one or two sexual “healings” a week had higher levels of immuno-globin A an antibody that boosts our ability to stay well.

Get happier! Obviously, being in a secure relationship has many benefits for a state of well-being is important to everyone. Women in particular see even more benefits than their male counterparts. Researchers at the State University of New York (SUNY, Albany) found that woman with regular contact to semen are less depressed than does who don’t.

Look younger and live longer! Those potent sex hormones and naturally occurring opiates does a body REAL good! A British study of 1,000 men found that those who had at least two orgasms per week had half the death rate of those who indulged less than once a month. According to neuropsychologist David Weeks sex can make you look younger, too. He found that both genders who reported having sex an average of four times per week looked approximately 10 years younger than they really were.

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Lenore Surdez is a freelance writer. Reach her at editor@starlightnetworknews.com

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