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Calcium and Vitamin D Supplements May Help Postmenopausal Women Regulate Their W eight According to recent research, vitamin D and calcium supplementation can help pos tmenopausal women with avoiding weight gain. The study indicates that all women will benefit from adding more vitamin D and c alcium to their diets, but those that are receiving less than 1,200 mg of calciu m per day will enjoy the greatest benefits. In addition, postmenopausal women should still strive to consume 1,200 mg of cal cium per day through the foods they eat rather than rely solely on supplements. The report looked followed 36,282 postmenopausal women ranging from 50 to 79 yea rs of age for a five year period. Some of the women were placed on a dose of 1,0 00 mg elemental calcium and 400 IU of vitamin D while the other women were provi ded with a placebo. A greater portion of the women taking the calcium and vitamin D supplements expe rienced a slight weight loss when compared to those on the placebo. Despite the findings of this report, which was published in the Archives of Inte rnal Medicine in the May 14 issue, the role calcium plays in helping to maintain a healthy body weight is still controversial. Biologically, it appears that calcium and 1,25-hydroxyvitamin D work together to better regular lipid metabolism in the adipose cells. This is accomplished mostly by stimulating the fatty acid oxidation and by suppr essing lipogenesis. Whether this is accurate or truly the reason for the connection between calcium and weight regulation, however, remains to be proven.