{"id":21423,"date":"2010-05-13T01:20:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T06:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=21423"},"modified":"2010-05-13T15:54:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T20:54:03","slug":"obesity-diabetes-lower-testosterone-in-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/obesity-diabetes-lower-testosterone-in-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Obesity, Diabetes Lower Testosterone in Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/obesity-diabetes-lower-testosterone-in-men\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21478\" title=\"obese man\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/obese-man1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a>While dieting is largely viewed a female endeavor, men have good reason to consider<a title=\"healthy recipes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/topics\/healthy-recipes\/\" target=\"_self\"> eating healthier<\/a>. Sure, living a longer, healthier life is a pretty good reason. But, there&#8217;s also the news that obese men tend to have lower levels of testosterone.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new study, obese men are more likely than their healthy counterparts to have low levels of the all-important sex hormone. Forty percent of the study&#8217;s participants who were obese had low levels of testosterone, and if they were also diabetic, that number reached to 50 percent.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There have been past <a title=\"men and diets\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/men-diets-make-you-manlier\/\" target=\"_self\">health studies<\/a> linking obesity to lower testosterone and sexual prowess. But, this is the largest one to date to connect the two.<\/p>\n<p>Diabetes is particularly effective in lowering testosterone levels. Even men who are not obese, but are diabetic, showed signs of lower testosterone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The effect of <a title=\"diabetes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/topics\/diabetes\/\" target=\"_self\">diabetes<\/a> on lowering testosterone levels was similar to that of a weight gain of approximately 20 pounds,&#8221; said lead author Dr. Sandeep Dhindsa, an endocrinology specialist at the University of Buffalo, Department of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>(via: <a title=\"men's health\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/36919773\/ns\/health-mens_health\/\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While dieting is largely viewed a female endeavor, men have good reason to consider eating healthier. Sure, living a longer, healthier life is a pretty good reason. But, there&#8217;s also the news that obese men tend to have lower levels &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/obesity-diabetes-lower-testosterone-in-men\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,93],"tags":[67,31,92],"class_list":["post-21423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetes","category-mens-health","tag-diet","tag-health-news","tag-obesity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21423"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21482,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21423\/revisions\/21482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}