date:Sep 05, 2012
es of vitamin D because 25(OH)D is sequestered by fat tissue.
Study details
For the new study, Dr Dorothy Teegarden and her co-workers recruited 23 overweight and obese people to participate in their double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. The recruits were randomly assigned to receive either vitamin D (4,000 IU) or placebo for 12 weeks in combination in with resistance training.
The results of the current study demonstrated that vitamin D supplementation improved muscular power in healthy ov