Obesity costs the global economy as much as war and terrorism, totalling $2 TRILLION each year Nov 2014
$2,000,000,000,000 a year in 2030
Overview Obesity and Vitamin D contains the following summary
- FACT: People who are obese have less vitamin D in their blood
- FACT: Obese need a higher dose of vitamin D to get to the same level of vit D
- FACT: When obese people lose weight the vitamin D level in their blood increases
- FACT: Adding Calcium, perhaps in the form of fortified milk, often reduces weight
- FACT: 168 trials for vitamin D intervention of obesity as of Dec 2021
- FACT: Less weight gain by senior women with > 30 ng of vitamin D
- FACT: Dieters lost additional 5 lbs if vitamin D supplementation got them above 32 ng - RCT
- FACT: Obese lost 3X more weight by adding $10 of Vitamin D
- FACT: Those with darker skins were more likely to be obese Sept 2014
- OBSERVATION: Low Vitamin D while pregnancy ==> more obese child and adult
- OBSERVATION: Many mammals had evolved to add fat and vitamin D in the autumn
- and lose both in the Spring - unfortunately humans have forgotten to lose the fat in the Spring
- SPECULATION: Low vitamin D might be one of the causes of obesity – several studies
- SUGGESTION: Probably need more than 4,000 IU to lose weight if very low on vitamin D due to
risk factors such as overweight, age, dark skin, live far from equator,shut-in, etc. - Obesity category has
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Obese need more Vitamin D
- Normal weight Obese (50 ng = 125 nanomole)
Click here for 2014 study
Dieters lost 5 more pounds if achieved more than 32 ng of vitamin D – RCT March 2014
Low-level antibiotics causes weight gain in mice (and most mammals) – Aug 2014
Global analysis of disability - most are associated with vitamin D deficiency - Lancet Dec 2012
which has the following chart - it appears that obesity is not a disease
Those low on vitamin D were 2.4X more likely to gain weight – June 2013
Obese need 2 - 3 X more vitamin D: click on chart for details
 Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki.
Some charts from the McKinsey study for the UK
American Heart Association recommendations on Obesity Reduction - Nov 2014
Not nearly at good as the McKinsey study on this page
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