Top 10 Foods That Make You Smell Bad

Posted on January 6, 2012
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Body odor is a very sensitive subject for many people. Body odor often cause us to lose self-confidence, when we are required to appear ‘confident’ in front of many people.

Sweating is an essential function that helps the body stay cool and rid your body of toxins. Excessive sweating however is a problem which leads to body odour.

Body odor can be influenced by many things such as diet, gender, occupation, mood, health, medication and genetics. Some foods you eat can make your body odor more worse and develop a pungent body odor. To avoid having body odor that are caused by these foods; these foods should be discontinued from the diet. Here are some foods may tend to increase stronger body odor.

Red meat

Red meat is difficult to digest and often lies stagnant and rotting in your digestive tract which results in the release of toxins into the bloodstream, it is ejected out of the body as flatulence and sweat that is offensive.

Low Carbohydrate

Diets high in carbohydrates will increase the body’ metabolism and lead to the efficient burning of fat. Consumption of food with high carbohydrate content is decreased and intake of food rich in proteins and fat is increased. However, this process releases ketones into your bloodstream that makes your sweat smell bad.

Processed and junk food

A diet that is made from refined white flour hydrogenated oils, sugars and other processed ingredients can be responsible for for creating unpleasant body odors. This food is the most difficult food constituent for the body to digest, they rot in your intestines and produces a foul odor in your breath and through your sweat.

Dairy Products

Dairy products are also rich in protein, which when broken down in your stomach, causing hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan stench triggers.

Spices

Spices with a strong aroma when ingested will generally produce sulfur gas is absorbed by the blood and eliminated through the lungs and pores of the skin. This causes bad breath and body odor. Examples of these foods are garlic, onion, and curry.

Choline-rich foods

Choline-rich foods can make you sweat like the smell of fish. Some people, who can not digest these foods easily, “smells fishy.” Choline-rich foods such as eggs, liver, fish, and nuts.

Tobacco

Cigarette smoke mingled with other elements of your body’s chemistry and out through the sweat glands would create a distinctive odor. Even after quitting smoking, the smell will stay in your body within weeks.

Fried and Baked foods

Stay away from foods that contain rancid fats and oils such as fried and baked goods, they contain fats and oils that become rancid with time and this in turn leads to poor digestion and excessive belching and flatulence.

Trimethylamine

Some people have a genetic disorder known as trimethylaminuria. In this condition, the body is unable to break down amino acids, trimethylamine, which again produces fishy body odor. There are many foods that contain amino acids, such as seafood, fish oil, eggs, liver, milk, nuts, soy products, broccoli.

Alcohol and Coffee

Limit alcohol consumption as well as coffee consumption. The high acid levels content of coffee can cause bad breath and unpleaant odors. Alcohol, when consumed in abundance, is secreted through pores and will cause an unpleasant scent

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