Fat Loss Diet Blog | Matt Lisk » Lot http://mattlisk.com Fat Loss Diet Blog Fri, 11 May 2012 17:00:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 You Are Less of a Man if You Have a Lot of Belly Fat http://mattlisk.com/57/you-are-less-of-a-man-if-you-have-a-lot-of-belly-fat/ http://mattlisk.com/57/you-are-less-of-a-man-if-you-have-a-lot-of-belly-fat/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:11:09 +0000 matt http://mattlisk.com/?p=57 Continue reading →]]> A fat belly certainly makes you a big man – and also less of a man, according to a study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.  Researchers studied over 580 men for almost 20 years, and found that a 4-point increase in body mass index – a (somewhat-flawed) calculation used to determine obesity – accelerates your natural decline in testosterone by 10 years!  This corresponds to a gain of 30 pounds for a man who is 5 feet 10 inches tall.  It’s not just the testosterone levels that suffer – the deficiency also increases your risks of diabetes, bone fractures and Alzheimer’s disease.

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