Although there are no mysterious love potions, good nutrition leads to good health—and to good loviní
By Betty Guy-Wills
That feeling of floating on air when you fall in love is more than a dream. It is a biological fact through the connections between mind and body.
Love heightens all body processes. The nerves and the endocrine glands send their message to every cell. If love is fortunate, and finds its natural sexual fulfillment, then this love is constantly renewed. The act of love is natureís mechanism for release from all kinds of tension. Sexual fulfillment frees all the energies from the ugly prison of tension.
You can strengthen your love powers with food. There is a relationship between diet and sex drive. Unfortunately, there is not one potent recipe food or formula to make you a romantic carefree lover.
The early Greeks swore by onions and garlic because they had the shape of the male testes. Another favorite was wine made from the mandrake root because the two-legged root looked like a human being. Many ancient love potions contained highly nutritious foods, like fish, which is high in mineral content. Some of the vegetables they ate were cabbage and peas, which are good sources of vitamins B and C, and vegetable protein. But the love food most widely used in ancient times and also today is honey. Honey is one of natureís finest and tastiest sources of potassium, protein (thirty-five percent), B complex, vitamins C, D and E, plus it promotes energy.
Other foods known to promote the love senses are ginger, vinegar, garlic, shallots, cinnamon, nutmeg, pepper and all heat-producing spices. We already know that spices produce gastric juice thus promoting a good appetite. But we do not need to go back to antiquity to find love potions. Country folk in the Black Forest believed in their potent potage for lovers. In some parts of Europe, this soup is still said to be a pretty powerful stimulant. It contains liver chopped finely and simmered in a broth of leeks, garlic, celery, parsley and every available garden green. Itís a thick soup, and should not be strained—the meat, vegetables and broth must all be consumed.
Today, we know that there are no mysterious love potions, but we know that many of those fantastic formulas did perform, not through magic, but through good nutrition. The good proteins and the high vitamin and mineral content of those love dishes invigorated lovers in those days as they do now.
A modern discovery is chocolate. Nutritionists say eating three pieces of the dark variety every month lowers levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol and extends life expectancy. Good news all you chocolate lovers for Valentines Day!
Good nutrition is not only the basis for good health and good lovinë, but an excellent vehicle for looking good as long as you possibly can. You need no magic recipes, formulas or tricks—nothing but good nourishing food, filled with natureís own potency. This is what science knows about food and love. So donít fight the feeling—eat healthy and you will enjoy a healthy love life!