How to Take Magnesium Foods to Treat Body Odor

Many people can't or don't care to use chemical means to treat body odor. If you are one of them, you will be glad to know that there are natural ways to keep you socially acceptable. Magnesium is known to reduce body odor and there are plenty of tasty magnesium foods to make this nutrient easy to take.

Instructions

1. Get magnesium at breakfast. Cereal, pancakes or muffins made entirely with cornmeal, whole-wheat flour, buckwheat flour or oat bran can start the day off well. Take a glass of prune juice or a cup of yogurt to give the meal a boost and neutralize chemicals that cause that body odor.

2. Add magnesium foods to your lunch. Take barley soup with black, white or navy beans, or fix a salad garnished with garbanzo beans, almonds or pine nuts.

3. Make snacks with magnesium foods. Try a handful of Brazil nuts, cashews, dried soy beans or pumpkin seeds to ward off hunger and treat body odor at the same time.

4. Create a magnesium-rich supper. Cook halibut or tuna in a tomato paste sauce. Bake potatoes (most of the magnesium is in the skin), or boil spinach, okra, parsnips or artichokes.

5. Invent a dessert with magnesium foods. Use sweetened condensed milk, canned sweet potatoes, bananas and dried figs for a sweet treat.

6. Track the effectiveness of a magnesium-rich diet. Note the times you ate, when you felt body odor was subsiding and when it returned. Use your data to decide what you should eat and when. Then determine if you must take other measures to control body odor.

Tips & Warnings

• If you don't like to cook, ready-made dishes made with magnesium foods are available at your local natural foods market, or in the specialty foods section of the supermarket.

• Magnesium from foods will begin to affect your body fairly soon after you have eaten, but will wear off within about 12 hours.