Low Carb Diets Create Bad Breath
Why can something good cause something bad? The Atkins diet has provided a weight loss solution for many many people. While not everyone has found success with the low-carb based diet, there are lots of others that have found the diet to work in slimming down their waistline, but they have found out that they also created bad breath.
The Atkins diet and bad breath go hand and hand, and it happens to people who use other low carb diets as well. It is because of a reaction of your body to the lack of carbohydrates. Certain chemicals are released by the body when fat is burned. Due to the lack of carbohydrates to burn to get energy, the body burns the fats stored in our bodies. The chemicals made, called ketones, are the ones that emit the foul odor.
The problem for dieters is that there is no solution or treatment for this natural process. No amount of oral hygiene like flossing and brushing will remove the bad odor. This is because the foul smell is not coming from your mouth, it is coming from you and the breath you exhale. What you can do is to dilute or mask the odor. You can do this by drinking a lot of water. Or, you can try mints, and gums, just make sure that they are sugar free. The more sugar you take in, the more you defeat the purpose of the diet and create food for the halitosis causing bacteria.
I guess that’s just the way it is. You can’t have everything. So if you are on the Atkins diet and you have bad breath, this means its working.
