吃了大蒜的男性汗味對女性更具吸引力

It might sound like the most unlikely of dating guys, if you want to get the girl, forget the aftershave and try eating garlic instead.

這聽起來絕對不像是什麼約會祕訣。但是夥計們，如果你想將那個妹子約上手，就別擦鬚後水了，試着吃點大蒜吧！

Scientists found the sweat of men who had eaten the bulb smelt more attractive to 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.

科學家發現，吃了大蒜的男性汗味對女性更具吸引力。研究人員表示，吃大蒜（極富營養的食物）的男性腋窩散發出的汗味對女性來講更迷人，因爲這表明男性的身體非常健康。

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 , 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.

大蒜能抗菌、抗病毒，還能抗真菌。研究表明吃大蒜能減少感冒、乃至高血壓和某些癌症的患病機率。蘇格蘭的斯特林大學和捷克的布拉格查理大學中的研究人員表明，可能是大蒜的抗菌作用減少了腋窩中產生刺鼻氣味的細菌的比重，因此腋窩的汗味也就沒那麼難聞。

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.

研究人員在《食 欲》期刊中寫道：“當然在大部分社交中，口氣的作用都極爲重要；但在親密的關係中，腋窩的味道也是重要因素。”“我們的結果表明，吃大蒜對人類的體味感知 （聞到體味後產生的愉悅感）有着正面影響，這或許是出於大蒜對身體的有益影響，比如大蒜的抗氧化作用和殺菌能力。”

From an evolutionary perspective, formation of preferences for diet-associated body odours was possibly shaped by means of sexual the study, 42 men were asked, in rotation, to eat raw garlic, garlic capsules, or no garlic, and wear pads in their armpits for 12 hours afterwards, to collect body odour.

從進化的角度來講，人類對與飲食有關的體味偏好或許是從性別選擇進化而來的。研究中，42位男性需依次進食生大蒜、大蒜膠囊或不吃大蒜。之後，他們還要在腋窩上墊12個小時的墊子，收集體味。

Then, 82 women were asked to sniff the odour samples and judge them on their pleasantness, attractiveness, masculinity and body odour of the men was perceived to be ’significantly more attractive and less intense’ when they had eaten the garlic in bulb and capsule form than when they (the same men) hadn’t eaten it.

然後，82位女性需逐一聞嗅這些體味樣本，根據愉悅度、吸引度、男性的陽剛度和體味的濃重度爲依據，進行評判。結果表明，吃了大蒜頭和大蒜膠囊的男性的體味要比沒吃的（同一人）“更讓女性着迷，味道也更輕”。

The effect only came into play once the men were eating a substantial amount of garlic, the researchers found.

研究人員還發現，這種效果只有在男性進食大量大蒜後纔會產生。