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What Men Eat May Determine How Good Or Bad They Smell

BOSTON (CBS) -- Listen up guys: Do you pass the sniff test?

Researchers in Australia had women smell the sweat of healthy, young men and found that the ladies preferred the scent of men who ate a lot of vegetables versus those who ate a lot of meat.

Body odor develops when bacteria on our skin metabolize compounds in our sweat, and this wasn't the first study to find that women may prefer the body odor of men who eat less meat.

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