Forget aftershave, if you want to charm the ladies, eat GARLIC: Women find the smell of sweat more attractive after eating the bulbs

Men were asked to eat raw garlic, garlic capsules, or no garlic

Their sweat was then collected on armpit pads over the course of 12 hours 

Women sniffed the pads and rated them for attractiveness and masculinity

The more garlic the men ate, the more attractive they were perceived  

It might sound like the most unlikely of dating tips.
But guys, if you want to get the girl, forget the aftershave and try eating garlic instead.
Scientists found the sweat of men who had eaten the bulb smelt more attractive to women.
The researchers suggested that women may have evolved to prefer the type of smell that eating garlic - which is a highly nutritious food - produces in armpit sweat, because it suggests the person is healthy.
Garlic has antibiotic, antiviral and antifungal properties and studies have suggested it can help reduce the incidence of colds, and even high blood pressure and some cancers.
Or, it could simply be that the antibacterial action of the garlic makes the armpits smell sweeter by reducing the density of the microbes which cause the nasty odours, the researchers from the University of Stirling in Scotland and Charles University in the Czech Republic said.
'Certainly, breath odour plays a crucial role in most social interactions, but human axillary (armpit) odour is also an important factor in intimate relationships,' the researchers wrote in the journal Appetite.
'Our results indicate that garlic consumption may have positive effects on perceived body odour hedonicity (the pleasure derived from it), perhaps due to its health effects, for example antioxidant properties and antimicrobial activity.
'From an evolutionary perspective, formation of preferences for diet-associated body odours was possibly shaped by means of sexual selection.

08 January 2016