Posted on 03/27/2013 11:20:24 PM PDT by neverdem
U. MISSOURI (US) — Vitamin D supplements can help obese children and teens control their blood-sugar levels, which may help lower their risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.
“By increasing vitamin D intake alone, we got a response that was nearly as powerful as what we have seen using a prescription drug,” says Catherine Peterson, associate professor of nutrition and exercise physiology at the University of Missouri. “We saw a decrease in insulin levels, which means better glucose control, despite no changes in body weight, dietary intake, or physical activity.”
For the study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers looked at 35 pre-diabetic obese children and adolescents who were undergoing treatment in the Adolescent Diabetic Obesity Program. All had insufficient or deficient vitamin D levels and had similar diets and activity levels.
Study participants randomly were assigned either a high-dose vitamin D supplement or a placebo that they took daily for six months. Those who took the supplement became vitamin D sufficient and lowered the amount of insulin in their blood.
“The vitamin D dosage we gave to the obese adolescents in our study is not something I would recommend for everyone,” Peterson says. “For clinicians, the main message from this research is to check the vitamin D status of their obese patients, because they’re likely to have insufficient amounts. Adding vitamin D supplements to their diets may be an effective addition to treating obesity and its associated insulin resistance.”
Vitamin D helps maintain healthy bones, muscles, and nerves and enters bodies through sunlight exposure, diet, or supplements. Vitamin D insufficiency is common; however, it can be more detrimental to those who are obese.
Adding vitamin D supplements is a natural, inexpensive way to help obese children and teens decrease their odds of developing diabetes and avoid the side effects that might come from taking prescriptions to control their blood sugar, Peterson says.
“What makes vitamin D insufficiency different in obese individuals is that they process vitamin D about half as efficiently as normal-weight people.
“The vitamin gets stored in their fat tissues, which keeps it from being processed. This means obese individuals need to take in about twice as much vitamin D as their lean peers to maintain sufficient levels of vitamin D.”
For what it’s worth, I googled and found this...
http://bodyecology.com/articles/benefits_of_real_butter.php#.UVPjtotkg-4
which includes the following:
Butter is rich in the most easily absorbable form of Vitamin A necessary for thyroid and adrenal health.
Contains lauric acid, important in treating fungal infections and candida.
Contains lecithin, essential for cholesterol metabolism.
Contains anti-oxidants that protect against free radical damage.
Has anti-oxidants that protect against weakening arteries.
Is a great source of Vitamins E and K.
Is a very rich source of the vital mineral selenium.
Saturated fats in butter have strong anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties.
Butter contains conjugated linoleic acid, which is a potent anti-cancer agent, muscle builder, and immunity booster
Vitamin D found in butter is essential to absorption of calcium.
Protects against tooth decay.
Is your only source of an anti-stiffness factor, which protects against calcification of the joints.
Anti-stiffness factor in butter also prevents hardening of the arteries, cataracts, and calcification of the pineal gland.
Is a source of Activator X, which helps your body absorb minerals.
Is a source of iodine in highly absorbable form.
May promote fertility in women.9
Is a source of quick energy, and is not stored in our bodies adipose tissue.
Cholesterol found in butterfat is essential to children’s brain and nervous system development.
Contains Arachidonic Acid (AA) which plays a role in brain function and is a vital component of cell membranes.
Protects against gastrointestinal infections in the very young or the elderly.
Sunlight works well!!!
Yeah. Send the fat kids outside in the sun to get some excercise.
Wtf is wrong with people? Fat kids need pills like they need another chocolate bar.
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Everybody,.....EVERYBODY, in my cancer group was low on Vit D. I don’t know if the cancer killed the D or lack of D let the cancer happen, but 100% were low on D. Take a multivitamin with D. My mom was a 3 time cancer victim and she was put on 5000 iu a day. I’ve seen enough that I’m a believer.
D-3 is supposed to be the best. I take 5,000 iu per dy.
Best wishes.
From my limited investigation on the web, humans burn up 4000 iu per day.
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/
My Wife was SUPER LOW on Vit D, number was down around 6-7. OMG!!
She was shaking, feeling sick a lot, said her bones hurt, etc.
FINALLY, we chacked the D level & put her on 2, 50,000IU’s capsules a week, yes 50,000 (you can get them on Amazon) now about 5,000 a day average.
She feels WAY BETTER & is sick much less.
Everyone, please, get your D level checked...
What is a high-dose of vitamin D? Did they account for sunlight exposure across both groups?
Yep, we don’t eat any substitute. Mmmmmm, butter, tastes great and great for you.
Doctor Dave says get the fat little farts away from the video games, cell phones and TV and make them do yard work.
It worked in the 50’s and it will work today.
Since I started taking a vitamin D pill daily about 3 years ago. I haven’t had a cold since then.
The problem is especially a prevalent among black children, whose skin tends to block out more sunlight. If they live in the inner city areas, their mothers can't just kick them outside and say "Go out and play," as our mothers did. Just being in the city, even in a nice area, means you don't get as much direct sunlight as you do in suburban or rural areas. So they stay inside and the problem gets even worse.
Low levels of Vitamin D are associated with a high incidence of asthma among black kids of every economic group, too. Even upper-middle and upper-class black children have more asthma than white kids.
The tendency to slather sunblock on white kids also tends to block Vitamin D formation in white kids. It's hard to get enough sunlight if you live in the north (I think the line is the latitude of Charleston SC). If you're inside all day, sitting in school or in an office, then drive home, the chances you can get enough sun in the winter are nil.
There's nothing wrong with taking a Vitamin D supplement. Don't think of it as a pill, as if it were some awful chemical with terrible side effects. It's a natural substance, and if you're really low on D, eating all the milk products you could stuff in your face won't be enough to correct the deficit.
vitamin D being generated by the body when kids are outside... playing
so yeah... to keep the fat off, and lower the risk of type 2 diabetes... exercise is the obvious answer.
Thanks for the ping.
Like several other posters on this thread, I’ve been taking 5000iu of vitamin D-3 for years. Except for an occasional sniffle, haven’t been sick since I started.
Highly recommended. And vit D is cheap.
Be careful as you can take TOO MUCH Vitamin D. Most people seem to need more, but you can get too much.
The ‘obese’ kids already have a sugar metabolism problem that is generating their ‘obesity.’
Vitamin D is known for assisting glucose metabolism, and thus may avert the weight gain caused by high blood glucose.
Right on Pieter, butter, like honey too, is an all around life enhancer.
Not using butter is a very foolish life choice.
Regular D or D-3?
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