does meat make you smell?
http://savvysavorer.blogspot.com/2007/11/does-meat-make-you-stink.html
I heard that people who eat meat smell worse than people who don't
Is it true?
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8 Comments:
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chiff0nade at 9:51AM on 11/16/07
My girlfriend is a veg-head, and I am a meat eater, and she can get just as funky as me... Onions and garlic have definite impact on the way you smell, and so does alcohol, but I don't think meat has much effect. Perspiration in itself is basically odorless.
B.O. is mostly the result of bacteria that live on your skin, and their waste is what smells, the same way a sourdough yeast culture releases gasses that smell. So, the way you smell is largely the result of how much and what kind of bacteria you have growing in your own personal body-farm. Bon appetit!
seyo at 11:11AM on 11/16/07
Perhaps I should have said, "No - at least not any more than anyone else who doesn't eat meat." If I eat (Indian) curry, I smell like it for days. It's the implication that "meat eaters smell worse than people who don't eat meat" where I took issue.
Actually, those on an Atkins-type diet of high-fat, high protein foods cause a condition in their bodies called Ketosis which has been known to result in ferocious body odor. That's more a function of the "starvation" suffered by the body due to the omission of carbs from the diet; and not the consumption of meat.
Wouldn't someone who eats nothing but raw garlic their whole life reek much worse than someone who ate an otherwise balanced diet but enjoyed a hamburger from time to time?
chiff0nade at 11:29AM on 11/16/07
Answering the question directly, I can smell just fine on my own thanks to my olfactory system. :-D
LunaPierCook at 12:45PM on 11/16/07
This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but according to Shinta Cho's book The Gas We Pass, "Beans make you fart, meat makes it stink."*
A meat diet creates roughly 15 times more sulfur (which comes from the amino acids in the animal proteins) in the digestive system than a non-eat diet. This may have something to do with it, eh?**
*(At least that's the quote as I remember it. I hope it helps.)
**(I am not a professional biologist, or a professional anything for that matter. This info comes from a quick Google search, and since it's on the internet it must be true, right?)
ajeys at 1:55PM on 11/16/07
Speaking as a nurse, ketosis, which is what you go into (relatively) mildly on the Atkins, which I've done, isn't necessarily an awful smell. (It happens with diabetics as well.) It depends on how ketotic one is, and the individual response to it, just like any other aroma. We usually describe it as a "fruity" smell, faintly like Juicy Fruit, but I've run into other variations. And the odor doesn't always happen with carb restrictions. Your mileage may vary, of course.
lemons at 3:25PM on 11/16/07
I once had a friend who was a strict vegetarian and she always had unreal BO. She loved curry and cumin and ate them in all her food daily.
Her pores just pushed it all out and the odor was not so pleasant.
I think that is the year I started buying Yankee Candles.
JerzeeTomato at 5:26PM on 11/16/07
Cooking meat sometimes makes me smell :-) Eating it just makes me happy!
Dominic
the zen kitchen
dvchurch at 10:56PM on 11/16/07