According to some science studies that should probably be backed up with men having stable jobs, looking clean cut, and basically, a very decent human being on the inside, eating a lot of garlic makes men more attractive to women.

Of course, eating garlic isn't the only thing that will make you attractive. Just bare that in mind.

… according to a new study, men who eat garlic actually smell more pleasant and attractive to the opposite sex—not their breath, but their body odor. And if that finding isn’t counter-intuitive enough, it’s made all the stranger by the fact that only men in the study who consumed a lot of garlic—the equivalent of four bulbs a day—enjoyed the effect.(via)

Researchers collected the participants' body odor with pads that were worn for 12 hours and sniffed by 82 women who rated the body odor by its pleasantness, attractiveness, and intensity.

In the first phase, the men ate 6 grams of garlic (about two cloves worth) with bread and cheese. The women who sniffed their pads didn’t rate their odor any differently than they rated the odor of men who ate only bread and cheese. In the next phase researchers doubled the amount to 12 grams, or four cloves. In this case the women judged the odor as significantly more pleasant, attractive and less intense than the non-garlic odor. In the final phase the men consumed 12 grams in capsules and the women again rated their odor as more attractive and less intense.

So is it time to chow down on a gallon of garlic the moment you get back?