BUENOS AIRES: Eating pork is at least as effective as popping a Viagra pill to spice up your sex life, according to the Argentine President, Cristina Kirchner, who claims to have tested the theory.
''Pork consumption improves sexual activity,'' Ms Kirchner informed a surprised gathering of business people at a meeting at the presidential palace.
Ms Kirchner said she ate some roasted pork over the weekend with her husband, former president Nestor Kirchner, at the couple's retreat in Argentina's southern Patagonia region, with ''impressive'' results.
''We were in high spirits the whole weekend,'' she said, smiling. ''I'm a pork fanatic and I'm not saying this just to impress you, or for self-promotion.''
People in Denmark and Japan, where pork consumption is high, ''have much more harmonious sexual lives than us Argentines have'', Mr Uccelli said.
The head of Argentina's association of pork producers, Juan Uccelli, backed up Ms Kirchner's claims.
