Study: This diet makes you smell sexier to other people and it's good for you, too

In case you need more of a reason to eat your veggies, a new study says they may be helpful in making men smell more attractive to women.

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Wanting to incorporate more vegetables into your diet? Keep going to see ... more In case you need more of a reason to eat your veggies, a new study says they may be helpful in making men smell more attractive to women. Photo: Matthew Brown / Hearst Connecticut Media Photo: Matthew Brown / Hearst Connecticut Media Image 1 of / 80 Caption Close Study: This diet makes you smell sexier to other people and it's good for you, too 1 / 80 Back to Gallery

Our diets can influence more than our waistlines after a new study found that men with a higher fruit and vegetable diet smell better than men who don't.

NPR reports on a study that discovered women found the body odor of men who ate a lot of plant-based foods more appealing than those men who ate a lot of refined carbohydrates like bread and pasta.

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The study is out of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and a group of researcher recruited a group of young men and assessed their skin with a spectrophotometer, which measures how much fruits and vegetables a person eats.

After measuring the level of plants in their system, they were given a clean shirt to exercise in. Following a solid workout and sweat secession in their clean shirt, the men's' clothing was then given to women who smelled the shirts and shared their opinion of their scents, including how floral, fruity, and generally attractive it smelled.

"Women basically found that men who ate more vegetables smelled nicer," said Ian Stephen, the author of the study and is currently studying evolution, genetics and psychology at Macquarie University.

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If you're wanting to get on the veggie-diet train, go through the gallery above to see vegetable-based side dish recipes that actually taste good.