Mumbai: Here’s a list of foods beyond aphrodisiacs and oddly shaped food items that are said to improve your sex drive. These easily available food items will do the trick for you. Let’s start with the most important meal of the day, breakfast.
Oatmeal and Raisins
Any health expert -- nutritionist, sex researcher, internist, heart surgeon - will tell you that the best things to eat for a healthy love life are also the best things for a healthy heart. Oatmeal not only lowers cholesterol, but it's also a great source of L-arginine. This amino acid contributes to the production of nitric oxide, a gas that is released by the blood vessels in order to dilate, says Steven Lamm, MD, an internist and director of men's health for NYU Medical Center. L-arginine is the key to your partners readiness to arousal.
Watermelon and Berries
Berries help clear mood-killing cholesterol and watermelons are full of water, and the more hydrated you are, the better the muscles and tissue all over the body will be to respond to stimulus. Here’s a tip prepare a berries and watermelon fruit salad and top it off with walnuts of flax seeds for that extra dose of L-arginine
Fish
It is a well known fact that fish is a rich source of protein and omega-3 fatty acids. Well there’s a small connection between steamed fish and a steamy night in the bedroom. While omega-3 fatty acids improve blood circulation and help clear cholesterol they also maintain hormone function and may raise dopamine levels in the brain to prime you for arousal. Finally, research has shown that when people switched from a typical Western diet (high in processed food, salt, sugar and fat) to a Mediterranean way of eating, it boosted their interest in sex. The study didn't single out fish (it focused on the diet as a whole, which also included nuts, olive oil and fresh fruit and vegetables), but it was likely a factor, as reported by Huffington Post.
And we saved the best for last!
Chocolate Pumpkin pie
Share a dessert like this and get ready to be perked up for a night of passion. There are more than one reasons for why you should bake your lover some sinful pumpkin pie. In studies conducted by the Smell and Taste Foundation in Chicago, this delectable scent increased blood flow to men's nether regions by 40 percent (it also increased arousal in women, but to a lesser degree). Chocolate just makes everything better, period. Eating it can sometimes feel a little like swooning due to phenylethylamine (a stimulant related to amphetamine) and tryptophan (a building block of serotonin, a brain chemical involved in sexual arousal) -- compounds that are released in the brain when people fall in love. A small Italian study found that women who regularly ate chocolate tended to have stronger libidos than women who abstained. (The researchers noted that the women in the study who like to eat chocolate could also simply like to have sex).
