date:Mar 21, 2013
Dr Matt Sabin, one of the researchers and a consultant at the Royal Childrens Hospital, told Australian Food News today that researchers were not sure if the low Vitamin D levels were caused by the childrens excess weight, or vice versa.
Vitamin D is stored in the bodys fatty tissue, and an increase level of fat could mean that Vitamin D was being trapped there, said Dr Sabin.
Preliminary figures from the research, which is yet to be published, found that 44 per cent of clinically obese childr