Dr. Oz started explaining the "facts" of body odor.

Some people despite body weight, just naturally stink, because they just happen to be the type who attracts that type of bacteria that causes stinky body odor. It's just one of those things.

Oprah asked whether diet had anything to do with body odor. Doctor Oz said yes hat if you ate garlic and onions you smell like garlic and onions but there were other more important factors. Oprah and her audience nodded in agreement.

Dr. Oz went on to explain that hormones were also a cause. Hormones are generally associated with women more so than men. I have also been married twice and had quite a few girlfriends. None of them ever stunk, even when they had their periods. If you get close enough you can smell the odor of blood, but that's about it. No one ever accused me or any man of stinking of testosterone.

Nowhere in traditional Chinese or Ayurvedic medicine (both 5,000 years old) does it mention that hormones cause body odor.

Dr. Oz went on to add that certain races like black people naturally stink because they have big pores. Once again, this "fact" is not to be found in in traditional Chinese nor Ayurvedic medicine.

Besides being an Acupuncture Physician (FL 1992-2002) I was a basketball player, most of my life, up to the age of 52. I played a lot of street ball, YMCA West side NYC, Harlem River Drive, Pittsburgh (the Hill), Boston, Philadelphia, Indiana, Illinois, Florida, Georgia and Washington. I never noticed any difference between black or white stink. Some stunk, some didn't.

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) describes body odor fully mostly in context of diet and body function. The stomach, a major organ of digestion, produces hydrochloric acid and other enzymes that it mixes with food and fluids. This mixture sits and ferments before moving into the small intestines. Fermentation is a souring process.

Food that spends too long of a time in the stomach causes excess fermentation, sour smell, sour body odor, breath. Habitual overeating, under eating (low protein, low fat), overweight (15# +), poor food combination, late night eating, wearing tight clothing and or the excessive consumption of raw and or sour foods, milk, yogurt, etc.

Rancid, foul, putrid body odor can be produced by the excessive consumption and or indigestion of building nutrients, foods (protein, fat, meat, eggs, oil, fat, etc.).

The excessive consumption of sweet, sugary foods, drinks: juices, soda, shakes, smoothies, milk, yogurt, fruit, sugar, etc. tends to create a sweet, stinky body odor.

The cure, remedy to body odor, 90% of the time is simple diet: rice, cooked vegetables, grains, moderate amounts of protein and fat; fruit and spices; small meals, spaced if you are excessive, overbuilt (scroll down) and bigger meals (more protein and fat) if deficient, under built (scroll down to diagram).

You, your smile, eyes, breath, muscles, etc. are what you eat.

Author, Hot and Cold Health Acupuncture Physician (FL 1992-2002) Owner, operator Food and Thought, health food store, Hollywood, FL (1984-2001) Questioning and counseling of 30,000+ "What do you eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner? Web: http://www.hotandcoldhealth.net Cooking teacher Chi gung practitioner, daily, outdoors, since 1988