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<\/p>\nMost of us like to smell nice.<\/p>\n
The thought of being a bit whiffy isn't nice in the slightest, and what you eat could be having an impact.<\/p>\n
This is because experts say eating certain food often can make you smell.<\/p>\n
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Brits are being warned their favourite foods could be contributing to bad body odour.<\/p>\n
Health and nutrition experts at Prepped Pots powered by MuscleFood revealed how consuming food and drinks like garlic and caffeine can cause people to stink. <\/p>\n
Body odour can come down to many factors from medication, hormones and underlying conditions.<\/p>\n
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The foods we consume also play a large part in our body odour, with certain foods leading to more unpleasant smells than others.<\/p>\n
Ashleigh Tosh, health and nutrition expert at Prepped Pots, said: "Body odour is completely natural, but the smell of it often comes down to a mixture of different things including the foods you consume.<\/p>\n
"When we sweat, we have bacteria living on our body that essentially eats the sweat and that\u2019s what causes us to smell. <\/p>\n
"The types of foods we eat play a part in the kind of sweat we release.<\/p>\n
"Red meat for example causes our bodies to produce fatty sweat, the bacteria on our skin thrives off of this and can cause an unpleasant scent.<\/p>\n
"Our sweat is actually odourless and there\u2019s a reason they say you are what you eat."<\/p>\n
Foods that could be making you smell include:<\/p>\n
It\u2019s no surprise that garlic could be worsening the smell of body odour. <\/p>\n
However it\u2019s a great vegetable to have in your diet \u2013 and shouldn\u2019t be removed. <\/p>\n
Instead you can neutralise the strength of garlic by adding spinach or mint into your dishes to make the smell less intense.<\/p>\n
Too much consumption of red meat can also give off an unpleasant body odour. <\/p>\n
This is to do with how our bodies break down their high level of fatty acids. <\/p>\n
These make the food hard to digest and when this comes out into sweat it can have an unpleasant smell.<\/p>\n
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When our bodies digest dairy, the food releases a compound called trimethylamine which has a fishy smell when released. <\/p>\n
If your body can\u2019t digest trimethylamine properly then it may be released through sweat, causing a smell.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for coffee lovers, the stimulants within coffee and other caffeinated drinks can increase the production of sweat. <\/p>\n
Caffeine goes to our apocrine sweat glands which are responsible for producing fatty sweat that bacteria on our bodies eat – as the bacteria eats this sweat, it causes body odour. <\/p>\n
Caffeine leads to more sweat which gives the bacteria more to eat causing a bad smell.<\/p>\n
Excessive amounts of alcohol can also come through your sweats and even your pores too. <\/p>\n
This is the body's way of cleansing itself from the alcohol.<\/p>\n
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