If you're anything like me, you have lots of ambitious plans for the future.

I've got a whole series of new books I want to write thousands more videos to script,

but guess what?

None of us may be able to do any of the things we want to do if we don't have our health.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Just ate some garlic-e hummus?

Great!

But you may want to listen in on our first story.

Approximately one in three people suffer from halitosis. Bad breath. What can we do about it?

I've got videos on tongue cleaning, gum chewing, and the best mouth watch.

Population studies suggest that those who eat fewer fruits and vegetables may be at higher risk.

There's lots of things associated with worse diets that are also linked to halotosis,

though the fruit and vegetable link seem to remain

even after controlling for these other factors.

Works and dogs, vegetable chew toys seem to help.

But what about people?

There's a compound found in cruciferous vegetables

that can effectively eliminate the volatile sulfur compounds

like the rotten-eggast hydrogen sulfide.

These are the foul gases that cause bad breath, produced mainly from the breakdown of

sulfur-containing amino acids concentrated in animal protein, cysteine and methanine.

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