Vitamins that prevent obesity

Associate Professor Tsuruo Kawata of the Department of Nutritional Chemistry of the Department of Food Engineering, School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan, drew inspiration from an ancient cattle farming technology in Japan and proposed a new method to prevent obesity using vitamin a and vitamin d.

Since ancient times, the Japanese have a secret recipe for raising cattle. In order to make cattle produce more "pork belly" beef with fat, they feed cattle special feed, which contains very low vitamin a content. Khoda was inspired by this. Research has shown that vitamin a can indeed inhibit obesity, and vitamin d has the same effect.

How do vitamins a and d inhibit obesity?

Khoda said that when people eat high-fat foods, they are decomposed into fatty acids and glycerol by lipase in the intestines, and are absorbed by the body. When fatty acids are available in the body, fat cells will differentiate, and vitamins a and d have the effect of stopping the differentiation of fat cells. Khoda further pointed out that during the process of generating adipocytes, the dna of their precursor cells was copied into mrna, and then following this information, mature adipocytes grew. The start of copying this genetic information from dna into mrna is due to the action of fatty acids, but the stop depends on vitamins a and d. If mrna cannot be replicated, of course, mature fat cells will not be produced, and the result will be the prevention of obesity. However, Kawada also pointed out that vitamin a and vitamin d can only inhibit the increase of fat cells and cannot reduce the number of fat cells that have been produced. Once obese, since fat cells have increased, vitamins alone cannot eliminate obesity. Therefore, it is still difficult to count on using vitamin a and vitamin d to lose weight. They can only be effective in maintaining the body's symmetry. In short, consuming enough vitamin a and vitamin d necessary for the body is at least beneficial to controlling the development of obesity. For those who are already obese and don't want to get fat again, as well as those who are worried about obesity in the future, vitamin a and vitamin d supplementation can achieve the goal. Internship Editor: Gan Yi