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[pest2]

I've been buying and eating alot of mozzerella (sp?) cheese, lately. They started carrying it at Emart for somewhat cheap, so I figured why not.

It had been a couple of years since I'd eaten so much cheese. Man, my armpits really started to wreak. Now I can understand why asian ppl sometimes say westerners are greasy-smelling.

Anyone else notice this?

[Gatsby]

You found CHEESE, real mozzarella CHEESE in EMarty???

That's amazing!!!

Quit your griping. Just take a shower!

On the other hand, did it say it was actually, really genuinely cheese?

Forgive me if I am a bit skeptical. It's not just Korea that uses fake cheese on pizza, you know. And if it's "for somewhat cheap" chances are it's not real cheese.

Opinions vary on whether something like cheese can contribute to body odor. Some say probiotics can help you avoid body odor. Yogurt is a good source of probiotics. So is real cheese.

But then others say dairy products are a cause of body odor. As in, eat dairy products, smell like a cow.

I have noticed that some people have a strong bias on this subject, ie anything to do with consuming anything to do with animals.

And then there are those who say body odor is a sign of cancer.

http://www.newstarget.com/019777.html

Try laying off the cheap cheese and maybe your armpits won't reek.

If so, try eating real cheese and see if you still reek.

Then again, maybe its just your nose that reeks. You may want to get a second opinion.

And then there are those who theorize that having a body causes body odor. If this is true, you will be cured soon enough.

You could try the approach one of my co-teachers uses: just chew a couple of cloves of raw garlic every morning and no one will notice your body odor.

To really test this hypothesis that cheese causes body odor scientifically and objectively, you need more than one test subject, i.e., yourself. You need to get someone else, or several people, who do not have body odor to eat lots of cheese and see if they develop body odor.

I would be happy to volunteer. Just PM me and I will tell you where to send the cheese.

Another alternative often used by scientists would be to use mice as your test subjects.

[JamesFord]

Koreans say that westerners smell like cheese, so maybe there's something to it.

[pest2]

Yeah, they've mozzerella at Emart. Is it real? I think so. It has milk and it tastes exactly like the pizza cheese i used to buy back home. Not only that, but there are about 3 brands. 2 of em come from Australia, but one claims to be made from "seoul oo yoo" in korea.

How can one tell the difference between real mozzerella and imitation?

Yeah, its not just Koreans who say we smell like grease (if it was just Koreans, I'd take it with a grain of salt since they always seem to smell like rotting garlic). Chinese and Japanese people I've met say the same thing.

Most importantly, I can smell the cheese coming out of my own armpits, and its kinda gross. Even after I take a shower and scrub the pits 4x, I can still smell it in there. nasty... but cheese is SOOOO yummy. Oh well.

[the eye]

It''s no secret, milk products create body odor.

[Vollrath]

why do people think finding cheese in korea is so wonderful? i've never been to an emart or any type of similar large supermarket in either seoul, daegu, or busan that didn't have at least some kind of (real, not slices) cheese. it's sometimes a tad pricey, but then again, it's imported (it is in no way part of korean cuisine save "cheesuh ramyeon"---ugggh) and plus it isn't exactly dirt cheap back home either.

'REAL honest to god CHEESE!!!! OOOOH!!" </sarcasm> where the fug are you guys shopping?

[wo buxihuan hanguoren]

[Rteacher]

Obviously some cheeses stink worse than others (like the Gorgonzola cheese that came with a ravioli dish I ordered recently ...)

I eat a lot of (rennetless) cheese, but - as far as I know - I don't usually have much b.o. - possibly because I also eat a lot of yogurt.

I bet that meat-eaters have more of an odor problem because meat tends to putrify in the large intestine ...

[wo buxihuan hanguoren]

[the eye]