Vitamin D : For The Treatment Of Overweighting.

Since overweight and weighty women are at risk for chronic diseases and be given to have less-than-optimal levels of vitamin D, Dr. Caitlin Mason, Ph.D., research fellow at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center required to know if fat menopausal women could increase their vitamin D blood levels with weight loss. It turns out those who lost more than 15 percent of their body weight experienced notable increases in the fat-soluble vitamin D.

"Since vitamin D is generally lower in persons with obesity, it is possible that low vitamin D could account, in part, for the link between obesity and diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes," said Mason, the paper's leading author, published online in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. "Determining whether weight loss helps change vitamin D status is important for understanding potential avenues for disease prevention."

The year-long study - one of the largest ever conducted to measure the outcome of weight loss on vitamin D - involved 439 overweight-to-obese, sedentary, postmenopausal Seattle-area women, ages 50 to 75, who were indiscriminately assigned to one of four groups: exercise only, diet only, exercise plus diet and no intervention.

According to the National Institutes of Health, vitamin D plays many crucial roles in the body. It increases calcium absorption and is required for bone growth and bone healing. Along with calcium, vitamin D helps protect older adults from osteoporosis and youngsters from rickets.

The Vitamin D also influences cell growth, neuromuscular and immune function, and lessen the inflammation. Many gene-encoding proteins that influence cell proliferation, differentiation, and programmed cell death necessary to prevent cancer are modulated in part by the vitamin.

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