Prevention: 'Vitamin deficiency makes you fat'
If you ingest fewer vitamins due to unhealthy eating, you will gain weight. Scientists from the French research institutes INSERM and INRA have concluded this in an animal study in which they gave mice half as many vitamins as the animals actually needed.
If you think that we get enough vitamins and minerals through our diet every day, that is not correct. For example, ninety percent of Americans do not get enough vitamin D and vitamin E, sixty percent consume too little magnesium and fifty percent do not get the recommended daily allowance of calcium and vitamin A.
Vitamins play a role in the conversion of nutrients into energy, which is why French researchers wondered whether a diet with too few vitamins could contribute to obesity. They did an experiment with mice, which were given half the amount of vitamins normally contained in their food for 12 weeks. And yes – although the energy intake did not increase due to the vitamin deficiency, the animals did gain weight.
Why multivitamins help you stay slim
The shortage of vitamins made the cells less sensitive to insulin, reduced the production of the fat sensor PPAR-alpha in the liver – and thus the burning of fat. The researchers saw this reduced fat burning in the blood. Vitamin deficiency reduced the concentration of the ketone beta-hydroxyburate, a substance released during the combustion of fatty acids.
Conclusion
“Our study in mice suggests a role for vitamin insufficiency in obesity, although extensive further work is still required,” the researchers write. “Vitamin deficiency based on consumption of inexpensive but vitamin-poor foods may play a role in body weight and adiposity management.”
“Our study contributes to the recommendation of a healthy diet composed of various food products with high vitamin density, such fruit and vegetables, whole-grain cereals and fish products.”
Source: Ergogenics en Gene Nutr. 2014 Jul;9(4):410.
It's all related. But I don't believe in gaining weight due to a lack of vitamins when eating unhealthy food. The word 'unhealthy eating' should speak for itself, but what exactly is 'unhealthy eating'. It's about a balance for every type of body and genes. There must be sufficient exercise, not too much stress, no loneliness which one will compensate by eating more or 'unhealthy' food, there must be discipline, awareness of one's own body, the will and perseverance to continue working on your body, motivation which means you can afford it...one person has a 'predisposition' to become fat and 'it runs in the family' and so on. It makes little sense to highlight only 1 aspect at a time.
My doctor recently told me that being fat in itself does not necessarily mean an increased risk of dying earlier, as long as you keep moving. I believe in that too. Focusing too much on excess weight that you cannot seem to change with the best will in the world, again brings stress and frustration. If one has to deny oneself too many things, at a certain point one can no longer see why one would want to continue living because there is no more 'pleasure' at all. Whatever theory, it often doesn't make sense or incomprehensible things often happen when, for example, one sees a nice, healthy living person die of cancer at a young age. When one sees a heavy smoker and drinker grow very old??? How is that possible?
Yes Yes. Poor Thai people don't eat very healthy now. Often rice with a stew of call it what they can find. Not exactly a five meal slice. To say that those people are getting fat from it… No.
It is precisely the people who have an abundance of all kinds of food, for example the rich Thai people in the cities, that are expanding more and more.
Unless the French are very different from Thai and many other people in the world, this 'research' can be put in the fairy tale books as far as I'm concerned.
Restriction of vitamins in mice is quite different from vitamin deficiency, as Americans would have. The claim that 90% of Americans are deficient in vitamin D is not supported by research. The other figures are also based on wishful thinking.
https://www.consumerlab.com/answers/How+likely+are+Americans+to+be+deficient+in+vitamins+or+minerals%3F/vitamin_deficiency/
The vitamin industry is also always looking for new ways to sell its products. Apparently they're targeting fat mice now.
Most overweight Americans simply eat too much. Some have metabolic disease.
Sorry but I can't make this article more than a monkey sandwich. and it won't make you fat.