59% Low Vitamin D - linked to increased body fat, decreased muscle strength
The question with this study - which I believe to be accurate - is this correlation or causation. Does the vitamin D cause low body fat and poor muscle tone? Or do people who stay inside and get very little sunshine, also get very little exercise resulting in an unhealthy fat-muscle balance. We're finding out that low vitamin D is linked to a huge number of diseases... I'll be interested to see if we supplement people (the studies are recommending 1,000-5,000 IU/day), will these diseases go away? I believe that some conditions will improve, and I believe others we'll find it's about being outdoors or being active outdoors.
Either way, I'm glad we're looking at natural solutions to solve our problems and not looking to synthetic chemicals with a huge number of adverse reactions.
There's an epidemic in progress, and it has nothing to do with the flu. A ground-breaking study published in the March 2010 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found an astonishing 59 per cent of study subjects had too little Vitamin D in their blood. Nearly a quarter of the group had serious deficiencies (less than 20 ng/ml) of this important vitamin. Since Vitamin D insufficiency is linked to increased body fat, decreased muscle strength and a range of disorders, this is a serious health issue.Read more at www.physorg.com
