Overweight? Include lots of Vitamin E in your diet :

A recent study suggests that obese people need to include diet rich in
Vitamin E as they require more than normal levels of the Vitamin but get
less of it.
While their weight and other problems cause increased oxidative stress,
those same problems actually reduce their effective use of vitamin E, the
study pointed out.
This vitamin is found at highest levels in some foods such as nuts, seeds, and
olive oil.
Chronic deficiency in vitamin E could compound the wide range of diseases
known to be associated with metabolic syndrome, including heart disease,
diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and cancer, the study pointed out.
Some of the findings of this study are counterintuitive, the researchers said,
because vitamin E is a fat soluble micronutrient and, in theory, should be
available at increased levels in people who are overweight and eat large
amounts of fatty foods.However, the study found that even though circulating vitamin E in the
bloodstream may be high, in obese people this essential micronutrient is not
finding its way into tissues where it is most needed.
“Vitamin E is associated with lipids, or the fats found in the blood, but it is
mostly just a micronutrient that’s going along for the ride,” said one of the
researchers Maret Traber from Oregon State University in the US.
“What we found was that tissues of obese people are rejecting intake of
some of these lipids because they already have enough fat,” Traber said.
“In the process they also reject the associated vitamin E,” Traber explained.
In this study, the researchers made their findings with a double-blind study
of adults, some of whom were healthy and others with metabolic syndrome.
The authors concluded that its findings support higher dietary requirements
of vitamin E for adults with metabolic syndrome.
The findings appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Source : Hindustan Times