Vitamin
D Promotes Weight Loss
(NaturalNews)
A recent study conducted by researchers from
the University of Minnesota found that overweight
people have better success in losing weight
when their vitamin D levels are increased.
Dr. Shalamar Sibley, the researcher who headed
the study, placed 38 obese men and women on
a diet program and discovered that
those whose vitamin D levels were increased
lost up to a half pound more than those who
followed the diet plan only.
When
combined with a reduced-calorie diet, it appears
that supplementation with vitamin D helps
to promote increased weight loss among those
whose levels are low to begin with. For each
nanogram per milliliter increase in vitamin
D precursor in the blood, it was observed
that an extra half pound loss in weight was
able to be achieved while the diet plan.
A
study published earlier this year in the Archives
of Internal Medicine found that 75 percent
or more of American teens and adults are deficient
in vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency
is linked to all sorts of serious illnesses
including cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Researchers in the weight loss study
are unsure whether vitamin D deficiency causes
obesity or if obesity causes vitamin D deficiency.
Nevertheless, there is a clear connection
between the two.
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