Overweight Postmenopausal Women are Low in Vitamin D

Sunday, July 26, 2009  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Vitamin D is emerging as an important metabolic nutrient, having a definite role in the health of stored fat – although that role has not yet been clearly defined.  Nevertheless, a new study using x-ray absorptiometry measurements of total body and regional fat mass in overweight postmenopausal women without osteoporosis found that fat mass significantly increased as vitamin D levels declined.

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