Sugar Sweetened Beverages Lower Testosterone Levels

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A new study finds that young men (20- 39 years old) who drank sugar sweetened beverages (SSB) had lower testosterone levels. The full text of the study is online.

In the present study, which explored whether SSB consumption in adult males 20 to 39 years old in the United States decreased testosterone levels, multivariate analyses revealed that after adjusting for co-variates (age, race, family income, serum cotinine, BMI, heavy drinking, and physical activity), excessive consumption of SSBs (Q4 vs. Q1) was significantly associated with low testosterone levels. In addition, compared with subjects in Q1 (reference), subjects in Q2 and Q3 also had elevated odds of low testosterone levels, although these findings did not reach statistically significance. After adjusting for possible confounding variables, BMI was found to be an independent risk factor for low testosterone levels, and subjects with a BMI &#8805;25 kg/m[SUP]2[/SUP] had a higher risk of having a low testosterone level than did those with a BMI <&#8201;25 kg/m[SUP]2[/SUP].