The Relevance of Vitamins to the Body's Health (Part 1)

New research indicates a link between sufficient vitamin and mineral levels

and losing and maintaining healthy body weight.

According to Dr. Bruce Ames, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the

University of California, Berkeley, and a researcher at Children’s Hospital Oakland

Research Institute (CHORI), satiety—when the mind tells the body to stop eating—
may be linked to nutrients.

“We know calories and exercise play a role—but I think there’s more to it than that,”

says Ames.

“There are some 40 vitamins and minerals that are essential to the human body. If you
sit down to a meal that doesn’t give your body the nutrients it needs, your brain is
likely to get the signal to go on eating until you get them.” This can destroy your
hypothalamus tissue.

The results of research by a team from the Fred Hutchinson, Cancer Research Center
are consistent with Dr. Ames’s theory. The Seattle scientists found a link between
weight maintenance and vitamins B6 and B12. Their research focused on subjects
between the ages of 45 and 55—a common age for weight gain.

They noted a significant correlation between weight maintenance and subjects who

supplemented their diets with B vitamins.

Considerable attention has recently been given to the impact Calcium has on weight loss,
as well. In an initial study conducted by Dr. Michael Zemel, Professor of Nutrition and

Medicine at the University of Tennessee, volunteers who followed an eating plan that

included two servings of yogurt a day lost 11 pounds of body fat during the year long
trial without reducing caloric intake.

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