Your answers are right on the money!  However, I think that there are a great deal more autumnal aromas from food that cause arousal, such as: Baked ham; squash with butter; roasted brussels sprouts; brown sugar; baked quinces with cream; cider; cockaleeky soup; and the list goes on.  Funding should be appropriated to examine such connections in further detail!

The flip side is that an industrial agricultural diet with lots of processed foods and meats puts heavy burdens on the body's toxin processing system, which includes the digestive track, the lymph system, the liver, the skin and the kidneys.  

Our bodies have incredible abilities in this regard, but a modern industrial diet overloads the system, leading to slow but steady damage to the body's critical organs (heart and brain, say).  This systematic collapse is something that medicine can't always reverse - often, doctors aren't involved until the problems have progressed for years and years.  Exposure to pollution is similar - people will have trace solvents in their water for decades, and then everyone in the neighborhood starts coming down with cancer in their 40s - it's a creeping threat.

This slow degradation causes general depression, loss of libido, etc.  The body just doesn't have the energy - it's all been used up trying to flush out the system.

However, if you begin eating well and exercising and you start feeling frisky, please remember that other modern issue: sexually transmitted diseases, such as AIDs, herpes, hepatitis, etc.  "Getting laid" can mean "getting infected" - has everyone really forgotten all about that?

So... I guess I should keep noshing on Ho-Hos, then? Too much conflicting advice!
What I find to be a risk - now, this is just my personal observation - is when a person DOES eat well, relationships can be put at risk:  The eater will and does feel frisky, and the flush of health in the skin will and does cause many heads to turn.  However, if a person cares so much about their health to go to the effort of planning a garden, eating fresh and seasonal foods, then it is no difficult step to believe that they will have the brains and wherewithal to take steps to prevent STDs.

But a bit late, the peak harvest horniness has passed.  It's turned into the season of disgustingly happy couples and dejected loners.

But have no fear loners, very soon holiday angst and cabin fever will have those couples screaming epithets back and forth.  And everyone will be miserable again by the worst holiday ever conceived, Valentines Day.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

Note to self: Start working on upbeat Valentine's Day column now, but don't forget to mention eco-barrier birth control methods :)

My husband unfortunately has to work with someone who consumes McDonalds, Pizza Hut and Mountain Dew on a daily basis. This guy has body odor that would gag a maggot and works in a very physically demanding job, so he reeks 15 minutes within his shift. They have to drive in a moving truck together all day long. And this guy can't get it why women won't go out with him! Apparently, he does shower and I'm not sure about his deodorant use, but even if you can't wear organic or commercial deodorants, use a deodorant stone! Diet effects not only skin problems, but your odors as well!

"For as long as space endures, and for as long as living beings remain, until then may I too abide, to dispel the misery of the world." - Shantideva