Ditching Meat Turns Up Bedroom Heat!
1. The Sweet Smell of Success
Men could boost their pulling power just by shunning red meat, according to a new study. It found that eating red meat significantly reduces the sex appeal of their body odour. Seventeen men ate either a meaty diet or a vegetarian diet for a fortnight and at the end of it their sweat was collected. A month later, the men switched diets and repeated the experiment. The resulting pongs were rated by 30 women for pleasantness, attractiveness, masculinity and intensity. The veggies won hands down, their smells being judged as “significantly more attractive, more pleasant, and less intense,’ according to the journal Chemical Senses.
2. Banish the Beer Belly
The all-time turn off is a beer belly. People who eat just one meat meal a day are 50 per cent more likely to put on weight around their middles than those who eat meat just a few times per week, according to the American Cancer Society. After checking on 75,000 people over a decade they found that the one food most associated with weight gain is meat. A low-fat veggie diet, on the other hand, produces better weight loss than Atkins, Weight Watchers or the Zone diet – healthily and without ever feeling hungry. Check out Viva!Health’s new V-Plan Diet on vivahealth.org.uk (or call 0117 970 5190). It costs just £2.50 inc p&p.
3. Rise to the Occasion
Impotence may be an early warning of heart disease with an erection problem coming on average three years before a heart attack. The cause of both can be clogged arteries and the more meat you eat, the more likely you are to have them. Vegetarians are much less at risk than meat eaters and an animal-free diet over the course of a year can, in fact, turn back the clock, heal some of the damage and start to unblock those arteries and get the blood flowing to where you want it.
4. Show your Sensitive Side
Farming animals is having a devastating effect on the global environment and causing third world starvation, according to the United Nations. In the UK alone, around a billion animals are killed for meat each year. So simply by going veggie, the average Brit can claim that in their lifetime they have saved a goose and a rabbit, four cows, 18 pigs, 23 sheep, 39 turkeys, 28 ducks, 1,158 chickens and around 6,200 fish.
5. Get Fruity
Veggie diets are throbbing with natural aphrodisiacs to make hearts smoulder and other bits blush. Asparagus, almonds, avocado, bananas and some deliciously decadent dark chocolate all do the trick. And no wonder health food shops across Britain are selling out of pumpkin seeds – the little zinc-laden wonder that’s known to improve sex drive!
Footnote to editors: For more information, photographs or recipes, contact Amanda Woodvine or Juliet Gellatley on 0117 970 5190 or email info@viva.org.uk. Viva!Health is a health charity which scientifically investigates the links between diet and health.
About the author
Dr. Justine Butler
Justine joined Viva! in 2005 after graduating from Bristol University with a PhD in molecular biology. After working as a campaigner, then researcher and writer, she is now Viva!’s head of research and her work focuses on animals, the environment and health. Justine’s scientific training helps her research and write both in-depth scientific reports, such as White Lies and the Meat Report, as well as easy-to-read factsheets and myth-busting articles for consumer magazines and updates on the latest research. Justine also recently wrote the Vegan for the Planet guide for Viva!’s Vegan Now campaign.
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