10 Foods that Cause Body Odor and Bad Breath

Body Odor and Bad Breath are the problems which often reduce the confidence. Many things can affect the onset of body odor and bad breath such as diet, gender, occupation, mood, genetics, and medicine.


Deodorant may be effective enough to cover the odor of the body, but most experts think too often the use of deodorant can be a bad influence. Change dietary pattern seems to be an alternative to reduce bad body odor.


The following are the foods you should limit to prevent body odor and bad breath:

1. Spices. Spices with a strong smell when ingested will generally produce the sulfur gas is absorbed by the blood and eliminated through the lungs and skin pores. It causes bad breath and body odor. Example of the foods are garlic, onion, and curry.
2. Meat. It took a long time to digest a meat. When food is undigested, toxins and foul-smelling gas are released. It causes the smell of the sweet. A study published by Chemical, conclude that women judge a man who does not eat meat is more fun, more interesting, and less prone to body odor than men who eat meat.
3. Alcohol and Caffeine. Although consuming alcohol and caffeine (coffee, chocolate, tea, soda, etc.) has become a habit, by limiting the drink, your body will be more fresh and odorless.
4. Processed Food and Junk Food. Consumption of processed food that is too much salt / sugar, flour, hydrogenated oils, and so forth, will then to rot in the stomach, thus producing unwanted breath and body odor.
5. Low-Carb. Cutting the carbs cause the excess intake of the protein rich foods. It can help burn fat in the body. However, this process releases ketones into your bloodstream that make your sweet smell bad.
6. Dairy Products. Dairy products are also rich in protein, which when it broken down in the stomach are causing hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan odor triggers.
7. Choline. Choline-rich foods can make your sweet smell like fish. Some people, who can not digest the food easily, "smell fishy." Examples of such foods are eggs, liver, fish, and nuts.
8. Fried foods. Fats and oils in fried and fatty foods become rancid over time, and ca lead to poor digestion. It also causes bad body odor.
9. Tobacco. Cigarette smoke is mixed with other elements and out through the sweet glands will cause odor characteristics. Even after quitting smoking, the smell will stay in the body within weeks. 
10. 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 oils, eggs, liver, milk, nuts, soy products, broccoli.

To prevent body odor, there are several ways you can do, such as:

• Drink lots of water.
• Consumption of foods containing fiber, fruits, and low choline (apples, strawberries, oranges, grapes, tomatoes, pineapples, bananas, and watermelons).
• If you could change your diet, do not need to worry about body odor that had been stalking you. In addition, you also no longer need to spend lots of money to buy deodorant. 

Resource: health.kompas
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