Great Food, Great Sex: The Three Food Factors for Sexual Fitness
Fried and Edlen-Nezin's volume adds "great sex" to the list of enticements for the food-fad conscious, but readers looking for a hot and juicy read will be disappointed-after a section on sexual dysfunction, sex seems to be little more than an afterthought to discussions of the benefits of eating healthfully (though there's bound to be a reader who will appreciate grape seed oil's secret life as a "natural lubricant"). Fried and Edlen-Nezin stress nitric oxide's role in relaxing blood vessels (and thus lowering blood pressure) and the importance of amino acid arginine as a source of nitric oxide. However, the included recipes neglect to list figures for arginine or anti-oxidants in the accompanying nutritional data. Though there is a trove of tips about preparing healthful food and making healthy dietary choices, the book is hamstrung from the beginning by its dependence on what amounts to little more than a smattering of hackneyed comments ("Get ready to X-rate your plate," or, at the end of the introduction: "enough foreplay, let's get down to business") spliced into an otherwise serviceable guide to heart-healthy eating.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.