Vitamin D supplementation may decrease abdominal visceral adipose tissue in overweight and obese adults

The following three studies suggest that vitamin D supplementation may be beneficial in reducing abdominal visceral adipose tissue in overweight and obese adults.

Studies
1. Calcium and vitamin D supplementation is associated with decreased abdominal visceral adipose tissue in overweight and obese adults. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2012;95(1):101-108. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3238453/

2. A 12-week double-blind randomized clinical trial of vitamin D3 supplementation on body fat mass in healthy overweight and obese women. Nutrition Journal. 2012;11:78. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3514135/

3. Impact of vitamin D supplementation during a resistance training intervention on body composition, muscle function, and glucose tolerance in overweight and obese adults. Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland). 2013;32(3):375-381.

A recent article from the AAFP showed that Vitamin D supplementation was ineffective for a lot of other conditions.
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2018/0215/p254.html

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Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin.

Kenneth’s mission is to use medicine, spiritual formation, poverty alleviation, and leadership development to help people live lives to the fullest. He holds two doctorate degrees: the first is in medicine and the second is in spiritual formation. He is a practicing U.S. physician, an assistant professor of medicine, and a senior professor of leadership and spiritual formation at Servants University (SU). Kenneth is also a core faculty in the department of orphan care and poverty alleviation at SU and the founder and president of the Kenneth Acha Foundation, an organization that has helped thousands of orphans in Cameroon and trained many leaders since 2005.

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