If your love life could do with a bit of a boost, you might find that changing your diet can give you that extra 'oomph', or whatever you wish to call it.
This doesn't have to entail changing your diet and counting calories.
Some simple changes can really help.
Asparagus contains high levels of potassium, phosphorus and calcium which help to make you feel more energetic.
Eating too much asparagus can have the reverse effect because this vegetable contains aspartic acid which can cause tiredness and apathy.
A little will give a boost to your love life and act as a good aphrodisiac but like many things, more is not always better.
If you don't like asparagus you can get your boost from caviar which has long been associated with sexual prowess.
The ancient Greeks called it the 'food of love'.
The connection is probably because this is fish eggs and because it contains large quantities of vitamin E which is noted for enhancing the sex life.
Oysters are widely known as aphrodisiacs for much the same reason.
In China, Ancient Greece and Rome, garlic was added to food as a stimulant.
It was thought to be the ideal food for improving the love life.
They claimed it had the ability to give lovers strength and stamina.
No doubt, it was essential for both parties to eat it, in order to make this work in practise.
The Persians used honey as an aphrodisiac and it is written about in detail in 'The Perfumed Garden' by Sheikh Nefzawi.
This book is one of the world's great classics when it comes to erotic literature.
It was written in Arabic, in sixteenth century Tunis and is a manual of the erotic arts.
When explorers first brought bright red tomatoes to Europe from South America, people thought they were the forbidden fruits of the Garden of Eden and they became known as 'love apples'.
If none of these takes your fancy, or turns you on as the saying goes, you could always try truffles.
This musty smelling fungus grows underground and some very famous lovers praised its aphrodisiac qualities.
Rabelais, George Sand, Napoleon, Madame Pompadour the notorious Casanova swore by the stimulating effect of this fungus.
There is also an old French proverb which says that those who wish to lead a virtuous life must not eat truffles, if you want to do the opposite, perhaps this is the one for you.