A multivitamin every day makes you slimmer
When you get older, you usually have to fight against being overweight. This also applies, of course, to expats and pensioners in Thailand. In addition to limiting calorie intake and sufficient exercise, it may also be wise to take a good multivitamin pill. Users of multivitamins are slimmer than non-users.
Researchers at Laval University in Canada came to this conclusion when they analyzed data from 267 men and 320 women aged 20–65.
Study
The men and women participated in the Quebec Family Study in the XNUMXs. Their ancestors were all from Canada. In the Quebec Family Study, researchers study the interplay between health, lifestyle factors and genes.
The reason the Canadians looked at supplement use is that researchers have sometimes reported in the literature that taking extra vitamins and minerals reduces the risk of obesity. For example, in 2005 researchers from Bastyr University in the US published an epidemiological study in which fat people who took multivitamins and multiminerals gained less weight. [J Altern Complement Med. 2005 Oct;11(5):909-15.] The use of extra vitamins B6, B2 and chromium also inhibited the increase in weight.
A possible mechanism is that extra vitamins and minerals curb appetite, the Canadians speculate. For example, vitamins C and B6 play a key role in the conversion of tryptophan to serotonin. If you don't produce enough serotonin, you will eat more.
Results
The researchers found that supplement users in their study population indeed had a few kilograms less fat. They also burned more kcal per kg of body weight. Immediately below you see the data for men, below that for women.
In an experiment with a different research population, the researchers looked at whether supplementation inhibits the feeling of hunger, but nothing clear emerged: women had a slightly less appetite as a result of the supplementation, while men had no effect. In the experiment, the subjects went on a diet. The researchers speculate that multipreparations do not have a clear hunger-inhibiting sensation in that condition.
Conclusion
Although the mechanism remains unclear, multivitamins do seem to help maintain a healthy weight.
Source: Ergogenics – Br J Nutr. 2008 May;99(5):1157-67.
Could it also be the case that multivitamin takers live a more 'healthy' lifestyle – translated into their diet and exercise pattern – and therefore have fewer weight problems? At least it works that way for me....
I absolutely don't pay attention to healthy food and I eat what I like and certainly not rabbit food that should be so healthy. I don't spit in a beer either.
I move a lot and you can often find me at sea in my kayak around 7 o'clock in the morning.
Daily walking with the dogs along the beach and swimming.
Every year I go to the hospital for the annual check-up.
The doctors usually say that something can be added to the scale. I weigh 66 kg and 178 cm
for years. I'm in my seventies and can't gain weight.
In most magazines you only read about losing weight, but how do I gain weight?
Doing the opposite of what they recommend for weight loss?
Many older people still have the old eating habits from the time when they worked daily and still burned calories. Everything is connected with an easy calculation, if you take 2000 to 3000 calories daily, and you burn a maximum of 1500 calories in terms of exercise, it is actually normal that your body changes. Someone who thinks that he moves as in his younger years, should not forget that this usually happens at a completely different pace, which also means that one already uses fewer calories. It is quite possible that a person who takes a multivitamin is slimmer, but this is usually due to the fact that he is already more involved in everything that benefits his health from home. Otherwise you could advise every fat person, just eat and drink, if you don't forget the multivitamin pill before you go to sleep in the evening.
I've been taking a multivitamin for 12 years and extra B and C and E. I move quite a lot. But I'm still 14 kilos overweight. So I don't believe all those nice stories anymore. As soon as someone conducts an investigation, we should take their outcome for granted. Today coffee is very bad and tomorrow very healthy again. I'm not saying they spewed nonsense, but they also have to live. Just good food and drink in moderation and use your common sense.
People who take multivitamins are more concerned with their health than pint swallowers. Of course, the first ones are a bit slimmer on average. Typically “scientific” research just to be widely cited, so to make a name for yourself and raise some extra funds. An objective study would put together two initially comparable average groups and have everyone take multivitamin pills (and monitor that they actually continue to take them regularly for at least a year), but from one group those supposed and apparent multivitamin pills would only be a placebo (a product that is know it has no effect). After that year, the possibly changed situation should then be compared to the initial situation for both groups.
But such really scientifically meaningful research takes a long time and costs a lot more money. Moreover, if there were no significant difference between the two groups, there would hardly be any reference to it and then one hardly earns anything back in government subsidies or company support: it certainly does not yield anything net. The perverse way in which scientists and scientific institutions have been financed worldwide for decades now appears to have an increasing impact on the choice of subject and method to conduct 'research'. Reputable institutions also have to compete and are therefore obliged to fund their real research by organizing fake studies. We are therefore inundated with all kinds of messages without being able to distinguish the useful knowledge from the heap of quackery. The media also makes no effort to display any logical critical sense or to compare often contradictory studies.
After many years I have found that when you put "too" for something, it is not healthy
too much, too little, too thick, too thin, etc. etc.
174 meters and 97 kg is of course WAY too heavy. Stopped alcohol a few years ago (now started well again, enough exercise (golf twice a week) no sweets or coca colas and can't get a gram off. Stress says the doctor. Well it will be
Or do you have any other tips. Would like to hear.
MVG
Peace.
What helped me is to gain insight into my eating habits. So know what you eat without vitamin pills and powders. I spoke to a dietitian twice for half an hour. She explained things to me that you better take instead of preaching and pushing you towards a crash diet. Or even more intense a stomach reduction and intestinal bypass on the cutting table of a hospital. Now I come to her once a year for half an hour to catch up. I also said at the time that I was moving well. Only when I had used the pedometer on my mobile phone for a week turned out to be horribly disappointing. Good sleep is also an important factor in the weight loss process and stress can be massaged away by classical Thai massage. I stand on the weighbridge once a month and not every day to avoid weighing stress.