{"id":23,"date":"2012-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/adampayne\/?p=23"},"modified":"2026-08-03T06:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:35:07","slug":"vitamin-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/adampayne\/vitamin-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D link to childhood weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Vitamin D link to childhood weight<\/h2>\n<p>Women who lack <strong>vitamin D<\/strong> when pregnant may end up with fatter children, a study has shown.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/adampayne\/files\/2012\/05\/Unknown-2.jpeg\"><\/a>Children of women with low blood levels of <em>vitamin D<\/em> were leaner at birth, researchers found. But by the age of six they were 6% to 8% fatter than children whose mothers had a healthy intake of vitamin D.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The findings, from a study of 977 women and their children, were reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Study leader Dr Sian Robinson, from the University of Southampton, said: \u201cIn the context of current concerns about low \u2018vitamin D\u2019 status in young women, and increasing rates of childhood obesity in the UK, we need to understand more about the long-term health consequences for children who are born to mothers who have low vitamin D status.<br \/>\n\u201cAlthough there is growing evidence that <strong>vitamin D<\/strong> status is linked to body fatness in children and adults, this research now suggests that the mother\u2019s status in pregnancy could be important too.<br \/>\n\u201cAn interpretation of our data is that there could be programmed effects on the foetus arising from a lack of maternal <em>vitamin D<\/em> that remain with the baby and predispose him or her to gain excess body fat in later childhood. Although further studies are needed, our findings add weight to current concerns about the prevalence of low vitamin D status among women of reproductive age.\u201d<br \/>\nWomen are recommended to take an additional 10 micrograms per day of vitamin D during pregnancy but the advice is not always followed.<br \/>\nThe study is part of a wider investigation by the Medical Research Council lifecourse epidemiology unit, which is looking at the long-term effects on children of environmental factors in pregnancy.<br \/>\nProfessor Cyrus Cooper, the unit\u2019s director, said: \u201cThe observations that maternal vitamin D insufficiency might be associated with reduced size at birth, but accelerated gain in body fat during early childhood, add to the considerable amount of evidence suggesting that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">vitamin D<\/span> status during pregnancy may have critical effects on the later health of offspring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PS. How do you ensure you get enough Vitamin D?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/vitamin-d-childhood-weight-160130035.html\" target=\"_blank\">This is a repost of an article I read<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitamin D link to childhood weight Women who lack vitamin D when pregnant may end up with fatter children, a study has shown. Children of women with low blood levels of vitamin D were leaner at birth, researchers found. But by the age of six they were 6% to 8% fatter than children whose mothers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-vitamin-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/adampayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/adampayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/adampayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/adampayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/adampayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/adampayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/adampayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/adampayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/adampayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/adampayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}