Sexual dysfunction associated with poor health habits

Danish researchers found that certain lifestyle habits were associated with sexual inactivity and sexual dysfunction. Women experienced increased risk of sexual inactivity when they were overweight and smoked tobacco; sexual dysfunction when they used hashish.  Risk for sexual dysfunction in men was associated with being underweight or obese, a large waist circumference, physical inactivity, high alcohol intake, tobacco smoking, and use of hard drugs (800% increase).

PositiveTip:  Avoid high-risk lifestyle habits to enhance every aspect of life.

Obese young women are 3 times as likely to use the internet to meet a partner.

French investigators have found that erectile dysfunction is experienced twice as often among obese men compared to normal weight men. However, obese women were no more likely to experience sexual dysfunction than normal weight women. But younger obese women were three times as likely to have met a partner on the internet, and were more likely to have an obese partner than normal weight women.

PositiveTip: Obesity not only impacts overall health, it can also negatively impact healthy relationships and emotions.