Obesity causes half a million cancer deaths annually – mainly in developed countries – Jan 2015

Obesity Now Causes Half a Million Cancers a Year, Worldwide Mercola

• N early two-thirds of obesity-related cancers—which include colon, rectum, ovary, and womb cancers—occur in North America and Europe
• women are twice as likely to develop obesity-related cancer
  examples: postmenopausal breast, endometrial, and colon cancer.
• Obesity was associated with 5.4 % of all new cancers in women (globally) in 2012
  8 % in developed nations
  1.5 % in developing countries

Story posits that obesity might be due to

• Overuse of antibiotics in food production and medicine
• Growth-enhancing drugs used in food animals
• Endocrine-disrupting chemicals, including pesticides
• Artificial sweeteners
• Aggressive stealth marketing of harmful junk food
• Excessive sugar/and processed fructose,

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See also VitaminDWiki

• All items in category Obesity and Vitamin D 441 items
• Obese have 50 percent less of two enzymes in fatty tissue to process vitamin D – May 2013
• Genes indicate that Obesity causes vitamin D deficiency – Feb 2013
• 1.8X increased risk of Obesity if antibiotics were used during pregnancy – Nov 2014
• Those low on vitamin D were 2.4X more likely to gain weight – June 2013
• Antibiotics and Vitamin D are associated with many of the same diseases
• Overview Obesity and Vitamin D contains the following summary
• FACT: People who are obese have less vitamin D in their blood
• FACT: Obese need a higher dose of vitamin D to get to the same level of vit D
• FACT: When obese people lose weight the vitamin D level in their blood increases
• FACT: Adding Calcium, perhaps in the form of fortified milk, often reduces weight
• FACT: 168 trials for vitamin D intervention of obesity as of Dec 2021
• FACT: Less weight gain by senior women with > 30 ng of vitamin D
• FACT: Dieters lost additional 5 lbs if vitamin D supplementation got them above 32 ng - RCT
• FACT: Obese lost 3X more weight by adding $10 of Vitamin D
• FACT: Those with darker skins were more likely to be obese Sept 2014
• OBSERVATION: Low Vitamin D while pregnancy ==> more obese child and adult
• OBSERVATION: Many mammals had evolved to add fat and vitamin D in the autumn
  • and lose both in the Spring - unfortunately humans have forgotten to lose the fat in the Spring
• SPECULATION: Low vitamin D might be one of the causes of obesity – several studies
• SUGGESTION: Probably need more than 4,000 IU to lose weight if very low on vitamin D due to
    risk factors such as overweight, age, dark skin, live far from equator,shut-in, etc.
• Obesity category has 441 items

See also: Weight loss and Vitamin D - many studies   Child Obesity and Vitamin D - many studies   Obesity, Virus, and Vitamin D - many studies
Obese need more Vitamin D

• Normal weight     Obese     (50 ng = 125 nanomole)

Click here for 2014 study

Whatever the cause, vitamin D has been shown to both prevent and treat obesity in somewhat less than half of women.