Joan and I came across a study that states an increase in vitamin d, the sunshine vitamin, can help weight loss. Vitamin D can be found most commonly in milk, but you can also find it in salmon, tuna fish, margarine, eggs(in the yolk) and some cereals. Shalamar Sibley, MD, from the University of Minnesota performed the study. “Sibley and her co-workers said that previous studies had reported an association between vitamin D deficiency and obesity, but ‘it is not clear if inadequate vitamin D causes obesity or the other way around’, she said.”
Here are some details about the study from Nutra-Ingredients
For every increase of 1 ng/mL in level of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol – a measure of vitamin D status – subjects ended up losing almost 0.2 kg more on their calorie-restricted diet, suggests findings presented at the Endocrine Society’s 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
Furthermore, for each 1-ng/mL increase in the active form of vitamin D (1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol), subjects lost 0.107 kg more.
“Our results suggest the possibility that the addition of vitamin D to a reduced-calorie diet will lead to better weight loss,” said the study’s lead author, Shalamar Sibley, MD, from the University of Minnesota.
With obesity rates still high – not only in developed countries but also, increasingly, in newly wealthy emerging markets, there is considerable attention to ways to trim down waistlines.
What do guys think? Would you make an increased effort to take Vitamin D if it helped you lose weight?
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If you are interested in vitamin D you should take a look at http://www.vitaminD3world.com The Canadian Cancer Society now recommends that everyone take vitamin D to prevent cancer. The site has good summaries of the data and offers a new preparation of vitamin D in a micro-pill formulation. The pills have been formulated with cellulose which absorbs water very quickly. This ensures that the pill breaks up very quickly to provide for maximum absorption. The micro pill is tiny and tasteless. Many vitamin D pills on the market have very poor dissolution properties resulting in poor absorption.
The site also offers to supply customers with a free supply of 400IU for their children and it also has a good newsletter.
I love reading these articles because they’re short but informaivte.