Belly Fat and Vitamin D

Can vitamin D help you lose weight? With all the weight loss fads and gimmicks it’s hard to sort out everything but it seems there might be some validity to it, according to Shalamar Sibley, a researcher from the University of Minnesota Medical School.

“In a very small clinical study of 38 people, Sibley found that higher baseline levels of vitamin D predicted fat loss, especially in the abdominal area.” So besides possibly helping you with your immune system and bone density it just may assist  you in the war against fat too. With belly fat being the most dangerous kind of fat this is even a bigger bonus!

 I personally know several doctors who test routinely for vitamin D and according to them most people are coming up short when it comes to vitamin D. One doctor is a pediatrician who states he’s only known two children that came out in the normal range after testing hundreds of children. Vitamin D3 is the form to take, "...it is 87 percent more potent at raising vitamin D blood levels than vitamin D2, according to a study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Vitamin D3 also produces a 2- to 3-fold increase over D2 in the storage of the vitamin."


Just always get tested to see what your real levels are to be on the safe side.