Health Minister More sex for hypertension

Brazil's Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao advises his compatriots: Sex as a prevention against chronic diseases and hypertension.

About 190 million people in Brazil suffer from hypertension. Brazil's health minister Jose Gomes Temporao gave his compatriots a special piece of advice at the start of a high blood pressure health campaign: "Adults need to move: run, dance and have sex". A football game on the weekend should not be the only sporting activity of a Brazilian, added the Minister of Health.

Was that a joke of the minister? No, because according to the newspaper "O Globo", the minister already knows the right dose to announce: Having five times a day to have sex is quite possible, but five times a week, every citizen should perform the sexual act. However, one should not disregard the prevention of sex. According to Temporao, the health situation in Brazil is a "ticking time bomb". Within the next 20 years, a large proportion of the population could be affected by chronic diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol levels. The dietary habits in Brazil, according to the minister, are very unhealthy and have promoted coronary heart disease.

Critics could Unken, Brazil have no money for actual prevention programs and therefore Jose Gomes Temporao such tips to the population let go. But what is actually in the proposal to have more sex, for example, to prevent high blood pressure diseases?

In addition to the fact that sex usually makes people happy and strengthens the partnership between two people, regular sex actually has health benefits. Sex accelerates u.a. The pulse rate, promotes blood circulation and the oxygen supply improves during the act. During sexual intercourse, the happiness hormone endorphin is also released. For example, this hormone sells headaches, back pain and tension. A prevention of prostate diseases has already been observed. In addition, men increasingly release the hormone "testosterone" during sex, which strengthens the bones, heart and circulation. So quite wrong, the Brazilian Minister of Health has not. (Sm)

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