Foods to boost sex drive
While there are foods known to pump up your mood, sharpen your memory, fight your flab, boost your stamina, the aphrodisiac snacks serve a sexier purpose – they improve your sex life. 
Hot Chilies
Capsaicin, an active component of chili peppers, increases blood circulation and stimulates nerve endings, thus making you feel more turned on.
Asparagus and Avocados
The flowering perennial plant species are abundantly high in vitamin E. These green plants help your body churn out sex hormones like testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone. The high levels of these hormones are known to circulate in the bloodstream, thereby stimulating sexual responses like clitoral swelling and vaginal lubrication.
Bananas
The phallus-shaped fruit is rich in potassium, a nutrient key to muscle strength.
Chocolate
Phenylethylamine, the key chemical in cocoa, refreshes the mind and invokes subtle feelings of well-being and excitement.
Oysters
Oysters are known to can spark readiness. The shellfish is high on zinc, a mineral that pumps up the production of testosterone, the hormone linked to a higher sex drive.
Pomegranates
Rich in antioxidants, the fruit protects the lining of blood vessels, allowing more blood to flow through them. As a result the genital feel an increased sensitivity.
Red Wine
It has always been popular for its relaxant properties. Red wine contains resveratrol, an antioxidant that helps boost blood flow and improves circulation before and during intercourse.
Salmon and Walnuts
Packed with omega-3 fatty acids, salmon and walnuts will keep sex-hormone production at its peak. Pumpkin seeds and flaxseeds also confer similar benefits.
Vanilla
The sweet bean mildly stimulates nerves, making sexual sensations feel even better.
Watermelon
The juicy fruit contains phytonutrient citrulline, the chemical which leads to an uptick in the amount of nitric oxide in the body. Higher levels cause blood vessels to relax and speeds up circulation, thus feeling more aroused in lesser time.
Boring household dangerous for moms-to-be
Pregnant women have always been advised to go easy. Now there’s science to back it up.
According to the findings of a new study, pregnancy is not the time for household chores. The study, published in the current issue of the journal Pediatric Epidemiology, found that doing “boring and repetitive” household chores during pregnancy raises the odds of giving birth prematurely.
Doing mentally unstimulating work day-in day-out raises the risk of giving birth at least three weeks early by around 25 percent, researchers warn.
The findings of the study are backed by pregnancy records of nearly 12,000 new moms.
It data collected included details about the mom-to-be’s daily physical activities for both exercise and household chores, job profiles, overall pregnancy health, gestation of pregnancy and baby weight.
The results indicated that moms who indulged in mentally un-stimulating work were more likely to give birth prematurely. Their risk of giving birth at least three weeks before term were around 25 percent higher than moms who abstained doing such jobs.
Researchers believe that doing boring and repetitive tasks increase the levels of stress hormones that are involved in causing labor.
Conversely, switching to a completely sedentary lifestyle spells more trouble, researchers warn. Taking up a completely sedentary lifestyle increases the chances of having an underweight baby, researchers found.
“Pregnancy is not a disease. In fact, most women who are pregnant are healthy and most of them are being delivered of perfectly healthy babies. Women who are healthy and do not have pregnancy complications should not restrict their activities in order to achieve a better pregnancy outcome” lead researcher, Hajo Wildschut, of Erasmus University in Rotterdam stated.
Patrick O’Brien, a consultant obstetrician at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists added, “Exercise is good in pregnancy, it keeps you aerobically fit, it keeps your weight under control, it probably reduces the chances of difficulties and it makes it easier to deal with the birth and after wards.”
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