Food addiction is a loss of control over eating patterns that affects people from all backgrounds. Combating food addiction requires discipline in modifying eating habits and lifestyle through achievable exercise and sustainable dietary changes over time. Both overweight and underweight individuals can experience food addiction through obsessive eating behaviors and fear of weight gain. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle with proper nutrition and exercise can help manage testosterone levels as men age, as unhealthy lifestyles are linked to sharper declines in both total and free testosterone.

1. • There is no easy way to combat
Food food addiction; it will require
intense discipline in modifying
eating patterns and lifestyle. A
Addiction manageable exercise program
should be embraced along with
dietary changes that may be
• When any substance is taken into maintained. Ambitious attempts to
the body regardless of its potential change eating patterns abruptly or
for harm or in excess of need, that to lose weight quickly rarely have
substance is said to be abused. long-term success.
Individuals who abuse substances
in such a way are addicts; these
persons become physiologically
and mentally dependent upon
certain substances, in this case
food. Food addiction is a loss of
control. Food addicts come equally
from all age, race, and gender groups.
They are overweight, underweight,
and some of normal weight. They
are linked by their obsession with
food. The obese individual suffers
humiliation due to excess weight;
they may be lethargic and
sedentary unable to move around
freely. The underweight person
may be bulimic; though they eat
obsessively, they are so afraid of
becoming overweight that they will
induce vomiting, take laxatives, or
exercise compulsively to prevent
weight gain.

2. • The scientists have concluded
Obesity and that the amount of testosterone
Testosterone is directly affected by the
lifestyle the man engages in.
Throughout a study that was led by Dr. Maintain a healthy lifestyle-
Thomas G. Travison of New England eating right and exercising --
Research Institutes in Watertown, you will have a higher
Massachusetts, it was found that men testosterone rate than if you
with that have experienced sharper
were to adopt an unhealthy
declines in testosterone levels lifestyle.
developed chronic illnesses. Unhealthy
men will experience a 14.5% drop in
total testosterone levels for every
decade of life and a 27% reduction in
free testosterone. However, studies
show that men who were completely
healthy throughout their aging process
had a decline in free testosterone were
10.5% and in total testosterone were 22
.8%.