Carbless Happiness

It's every Fattie's dream (as the resident Fattie on this blog I can use the word Fattie), food equals better sex! I chuckled a bit at first as I read this article, and then I started to wonder: can it be that while attempting to be good about the Atkins diet, I'm unknowingly depriving my body of the foods that tend to improve my "mood"?

Let's see what the recommendations are in this article. A short warning, if you don't like to read the word orgasm or lubrication, I recommend skipping the following:

Warning: "Without an adequate amount of it (Nitric Oxide), guys can’t get erections and women can’t become engorged and lubricated".

Recommendation: "Bags of almonds and walnuts into your cart, then cast your eyes toward the seafood counter for salmon, cod and halibut."

Warning:“They (Antioxidants) keep your plumbing clean and your cells healthy by mopping up free radicals, molecules that wreak havoc on the body in a process called oxidation,”

Recommendation: "Her advice is to load up on antioxidant-rich produce in all colors of the rainbow, including tomatoes, red peppers, garlic, spinach, broccoli, beets, berries and red grapes. Another good source is dark chocolate."

These and other advice can be found in Great Food, Great Sex. The point of the book, which I haven't read, appears simple: if your body is healthy, you will have a greater chance of feeling fulfilled and pleased with the way you are and the way you live and you will want to share that with other people. And food can help that process or hinder it, depending on our choices. So food can equal happiness and sadness. But what to do now? It would appear that increasing my Nitric Oxide rich intake through fish on Atkins, would be an appropriate way to implement some of these recommendations, along with more red peppers and spinach...spinach, as a function of great food for great sex...Popeye anyone?

Although, this idea of tying food to sex to happiness is a good one. Anything that makes us less inclined to want to share our lives and ourselves with each other, is something that can take away happiness. I'm surprised they haven't written Bad Food, Bad Sex: the Guide to Losing Happiness One Carb Coma at a Time.