We cram so much stuff into our bodies in the course of a day or week that if we get sick, it's almost impossible to pin down what caused it. What if we told you that the last round of diarrhea you got wasn't from that shady Indian restaurant, but from your chewing gum? Or that your body odor isn't due to your bathing habits, but the steak you ate last night?
Yeah, it turns out the foods you've eaten this week can mess you up in all sorts of unexpected ways. For instance ...
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Red Meat Makes You Smell Bad to Women
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With the exception of ATV racing, nothing expresses humanity's dominance over Mother Nature quite like taking a bite out of one of her beloved creatures. Red meat is full of muscle-building protein, meaning that when combined with exercise, eating meat gives you a totally ripped body that the ladies won't be able to resist.
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Just oil yourself up with the still-warm blood of your latest kill and you're ready to be served.
That is, unless those ladies place a high emphasis on not smelling like garbage. In a 2006 study, 17 men were put onto a two-week diet -- one group consumed red meat, while the other did not. At the end of the two weeks, samples of their body odor were collected and presented to 30 women, who were made to take a whiff of each odor and assess it on its "pleasantness, attractiveness, masculinity and intensity," though we can't imagine a vial of man sweat doing anything but unequivocally failing those first two categories.
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It took us to dinner first, so we felt kinda obliged to take a whiff.
The odor of those on the non-meat diet was consistently rated as more attractive, even when the groups switched diets and were tested again a month later. According to the scientists, these results suggest that eating red meat has a negative effect on "perceived body odor hedonicity," which we assume is science-talk for "smelling like a goddamn werewolf."
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