Eat Your Way to Sexy

November 7, 2011
Registered dietitian and author Somer (Eat Your Way to Happiness) has been studying the relationship between food and mood for decades. Here, she explores how diet affects sex life and presents a plan (Sensual Extraordinary You Diet or the S-Ex-Y Diet, for short) to help readers rev up their sex lives. “The relationship between what you eat and your sex life is like the fuel you put into a car,” she asserts. The author confidently promises that readers who use her approach will reconnect with “the Maserati within” and will look younger, think faster, feel friskier, and enjoy sex more. Somer’s plan includes six basic diet guidelines, including loading up on antioxidant-rich vegetables and fruits, feeding the #1 sex organ (the brain), giving yourself some space (i.e., take a “G-spot” snack break—the G stands for grains), getting wet and wild at least twice a week (eating fish for omega-3), remembering that (portion) size matters, and taking the pill (multivitamin or other supplements). In addition to eating healthfully, Somers stresses the importance of exercise, a natural aphrodisiac and best predictor of whether weight loss will stay off. Inventive boxes also address such subjects as “What’s a Kiss Worth” (in calories, that is) and “Movies to Get You in the Mood.” Not the usual diet book, Somer’s text is lively, conversational, and packed with fresh tips for better sexual and overall health.

December 1, 2011

A frequent guest on the Today show, Somer (10 Habits That Mess Up a Woman's Diet) uses the ever-popular hook that people who are healthy and in shape are naturally sexier. She gives good advice on eating and exercise, rife with coy double entendres and an implicit promise that good health equals good sex. Harlequin knows its audience and plays to it perfectly.

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December 1, 2011
What's the best way to motivate the two-thirds of Americans who are overweight to lose weight? Registered dietitian Somer (Eat Your Way to Happiness, 2009) apparently believes better sex may be the ultimate carrot. In this nutrition-book-disguised-as-a-sex-book, she repackages information savvy dieters already know. The guide works best when she sticks to nutrition, her expertise. She sensibly advises eating authentic, unprocessed food and choosing cereals made from whole grains. Her amorous edibles: the naughty dozen include salmon, dark greens, berries, and figs. She encourages couples to feed each other watermelon chunks and dark chocolate bits on the floor in front of a fire. The book falters when Somer veers into material unrelated to eating, such as movies to get you in the mood, look busters, and feeling sexy tricks. Somer tends to use sexy as a synonym for healthy. In her otherwise sound menu recommendations, she inexplicably recommends certain brands, and sometimes she goes overboard with wordplay. Even so, she does provide essential, if not groundbreaking, nutrition advice.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)