If you are finding it hard to shift the kilos, it may be
worth upping vitamin D. Researchers believe the sunshine vitamin, which helps
build bone strength, may be important in beating the battle of the bulge. A person’s
vitamin D levels may actually be a predictor of their ability to lose fat,
according to Dr Shalamar Sibley, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota
“If you start out with
an inadequate vitamin D level, it’s possible that this might impede your
ability to lose weight on a reduced-calorie diet,” she says.
Vitamin D appears to inhibit a hormone pathway that, when
overactive, can contribute to obesity-related problems and affect fat cell
development and metabolism. Further research is needed to establish a
cause-effect relationship, says Sibley, but the potential is yet another reason
to pay attention to vitamin D levels.
Scores of Benefits
If you are low in calcium, increasing your intake may help
shed kilos too. When researchers at Laval
University in Quebec looked at weight lose in a group of
overweight women, they found those deficient in calcium were helped by a
calcium vitamin D supplement. It is believed that brain can detect when there
is alack of calcium, and compensates by spurring food intake, says study author,
Dr Angelo Tremblay. “Sufficient calcium intake seems to stifle the desire to
eat more.”
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