New research finds possible reason for obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemics in kids: lack of vitamin D
If there's one nutrient that has received an amazing amount of attention and research over the past year, it's vitamin D. As DrEddyClinic has reported extensively, a lack of the vitamin has been linked to everything from dementia and arthritis to heart disease and breast cancer.
What's more, as scientists have probed deeper into the question of vitamin D deficiency, they've come up with an alarming finding -- huge numbers of people tested appear to be deficient in the vitamin. For example, researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health released a study showing American youth are facing potentially severe health consequences from a lack of vitamin D, which is also known as the "sunshine vitamin." (http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=25608)
Other top health news stories about children have related the startling findings that both obesity and type 2 diabetes have reached epidemic proportions in the US. Now research set for publication in The Endocrine Society's January 2012 issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM) reveals all these problems appear to be related to the widespread vitamin D deficiency in the population. Read more...
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