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Foods To Give You That Sexy Feeling
By Cynthia Yoder

I'm a connoisseur of magical foods - especially love potions. After eating, exercising and talking my way out of depression (see my forthcoming memoir Crazy Quilt: Pieces of a Mennonite Life), I see the special powers of the palette. Here are foods that two top nutrition gurus recommended to whet your appetite for more than dinner. Bon appetite!

1. Eat like a gerbil. "Many nuts and seeds like sunflower, sesame, poppy and pumpkin seeds are rich sources of Essential Fatty Acids (EFA's), which help sex hormone production," says Dr. Linda Page, N.D., Ph.D., author of Healthy Healing: A Guide For Self-Healing for Everyone. The seeds are also good sources of zinc, so they can enhance your ability to catch your lover's pheromone scent - the key scent for animal attraction. Sunflower seeds also contain a substance called chlorogenic acid, which helps stimulate sexual appetite in men and women.

2. Eat like the Queen Bee. This is one of my favorites - royal jelly in honey. Royal jelly is the food that worker bees feed to their queen bee, and it's rich in B-complex and other nutrients to stimulate sexual function. It's pricey, but how much is it worth to you to be Queen Bee? And speaking of "B's," B-12, along with Vitamin A, strengthen the reproductive system, says Dr. Carolyn Dean, M.D., author of The Miracle of Magnesium. And we all know that reproduction exists for the purpose of sex!

3. Eat like Pop-eye. Dark green leafy vegetables like spinach, kale, collards and others contain lots of magnesium and vitamin B that are absolute musts for sexual energy. They help regulate your body's stress responses. And we all know stress has to strip off with the undies if there's going to be any action! "When you're under extreme stress, your body doesn't want to procreate [read: copulate]," says Dr. Dean.

4. Imbibe the Oil of the Gods. Flax seed oil is another personal favorite. Like other seeds, flax seed gives your body Essential Fatty Acids- and it's available in oil so it's easy to "slip it in" every day. I drink Barlean's Flax Oil with a protein shake every morning. It's also good as a dressing -- shake it up with a little lemon juice and balsamic vinegar, and pour it over a spinach salad for a powerhouse lunch.

Build these foods into your every-day diet, and give them time to work - two weeks at least! And forget things like sugar that create a crash and burn cycle in your body that steals your energy away. If you need to sweeten your tea, grab a squeeze bottle of royal jelly in honey and pour! Oh yes, and don't forget to exercise - it's important for circulation in the places where it counts.

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