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Health and Sex
It does not take a degree in medicine to work out that sex is good for you. Anything that is free, feels fabulous and leaves you glowing is plainly a good idea.
But scientists are now beginning to understand that the perceived feel-good effects of sexual intercourse are merely the tip of the iceberg. Sex, they are discovering, can help protect you from depression, colds, heart disease and even cancer.
Professor Stuart Brody of the University of Paisley published a study showing that sex can lower blood pressure. According to Professor Brody, “we’re not just talking about the immediate effects of having had nice sex, the beneficial effects could last at least a week”.
One theory is that intercourse stimulates a variety of nerves, most notably the “vagas”nerve, which is directly involved in shooting and calming.

To see this benefit, you have to go the whole heterosexual hog. According to professor Brody, studies show that “penile-vaginal intercourse is the only sexual behaviors consistently associated with better psychological and physiological health”.
Such sex has been linked, in women, to a heightened emotional awareness, possibly because of the “love-hormone” oxytocin that is released.
One study even found that semen is a mood- enhancing ingredient.
Doctors speculate that this is because semen contains several other mood-altering hormones—including testosterone, estrogen, prolactin and several different prostaglandins—which can pass into the woman’s blood stream.

This explanation, says Dr David’s Hicks, sexology specialist and consultant in GU medicine at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield, “is certainly feasible”. Condom-free sex has its drawbacks, of course: contracting HIV or any other sexually transmitted disease, or becoming pregnant unintentionally.
If you are dogged by the sniffles at this time of year, regular love-ins could work wonders for your immunity-condoms and all. Psychologists have found that people who have sex once or twice a week have levels of immunoglobulin A(IgA) that are up to one third higher than their more restrained peers. IgA is an antibody that boosts the immune system and is the first line of defense against colds and flu. The health benefits for middle-aged men are also particularly persuasive. Recent studies suggest that men who have orgasms twice a week are half as likely to die early as men who orgasm less than once a month. The more frequently men ejaculate, the less likely they are to develop prostate cancer, and if middle-aged men have sex twice a week or more they also have a lower risk of heart attack. Much has been made of the slimming and toning effects of a sexual work-out. In fact, sex probably burns off about the same number of calories per minute as a brisk walk. “You get all the benefits of exercise”, confirms Dr Hicks. “This includes the release of endorphins, raised heart rate, moving the muscles and joints. One study even showed that arthritis can be delayed by regular sex”. You might also look younger. “Regular sex makes you feel younger as you are more relaxed, satisfied and less stressed”. “Sex has huge mental benefits,”

So sex could make you …
• Calm: up to a week after intercourse your blood pressure remains lower
• Happy: semen could have antidepressant qualities and hormones released during sex include oxytocin, which promotes loving feelings, as well as endorphins, the “feel-good” hormones
• Healthy: regular sex raises your levels of a cold-fighting antibody. It might protect men against prostate cancer and heart disease
• Youthful: sex increases longevity, might improve skin tone, and gives you a glow.
• Serene: Touch, which one specialist calls “vitamin T”, has Deep breathing also reduces stress
• Pain free: sex has been shown to relieve some of the symptoms of PMT, arthritis and, yes, headaches because of the release of endorphins-nature’s opiates
• Grounded: Intercourse, ideally with the same partner, creates an emotional and physical bond.

Caring and Peaceful touch how to help human Progress and Development

Babies need to touch by others that are like grandparents, parents, human touch is the first language we learn. And our richest means of emotional expression throughout life. New born babies process most information through their skin. Even a 90 year-old frail eyesight person clearly understands the grasp of caring hand. Touch is our most essential source of sensory stimulation. Human can live without seeing and hearing but they can not live without feeling sense.

Laboratory experiments considered that unethical and inhuman, kept baby monkeys from being touched by their mothers. The baby monkeys could see, hear and smell their mothers, but they could not touch them. The babies became apothecial and failed to progress normally. Babies need to be touched to develop not only physically, but also emotionally and socially as well.

The peaceful touch was started at the Axelson institute in Stockholm in early 1990s. Some trained teachers used massage and other touch techniques with children quickly assimilated the basic strokes and could use them on other children. Teachers can guide children with or without touching them, say, by demonstrating Peaceful Touch strokes in the air or on a stuffed toy. Adult touch is not required for the programme to produce full benefits. An experiment was held at Sweden on over 0.3 million children practice peaceful touch for 5 to 10 minutes daily, both teachers and parents, have reported that, after only 3 month, the children are less aggressive, show improved concentration, lower levels of anxiety and stress greater empathy for peers and improved group interactions. It was followed-up for 9 month and shown that these effect are not only still became more pronounced.

Babies need to be touched to develop not only physically, but also emotionally and socially as well. John B Watson, the legendary father of behavioral psychology believes that parents should refrain from deep emotional involvement with their children, , and that physical demonstrations of affection should be avoided.

The need for touching doesn’t end in childhood. As children move into the often challenging adolescent years, the natural tendency among most parents is to touch them less. Especially father start to feel awkward about demonstrating affection when their little girls are being turning into young women. It is not necessary to stop giving those hugs and kisses and arm squeezes. If they don’t get physical affection they need of acceptance and self-worth is so powerfully conveys, they may begin looking for their daily dose of loving touch elsewhere and without must discrimination they will become more vulnerable to predators that will ultimately harm them.

The recent studies found that caring and peaceful touch control the blood pressure, enhance oxytocin, relieves depression, eases muscle tension and body aches, subdues heart irregularities, enhance immune function.

But touch should be some problems; it may be a sexual harassment and child abuses have made the touching. But there are countless others peoples that they do not like to touch; they feel uncomfortable with touch so we need to follow a few guidelines when touching others. Be extremely careful about at work because work places are hypersensitive about touching, even if your touch is meant to be friendly, stay away from body parts like buttocks, stomach, chest and area below the belt. Teach your children difference between “good touching, and “bad touching’’, no children should be forced to submit to unwant kisses and hugs even from close relatives. If you are at the receiving end of unwanted touching, express your feelings, not with aggressiveness.

However meanwhile, from a mound of anthropological evidence, comes the confirmation that, in cultures where touching is an encouraged from of expression, adult aggression is low, where as in cultures where touch is limited, adult aggression is high.     There’s some paradoxical taking place in the area of human touching today. On the one hand, boundaries of touch have changed across all cultures. It is true that affectionate touching can help a child develop into a loving, caring adult, so spend more touching time with your children.