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Chronic Vitamin Deficiency may Lead to Obesity, Cancer

February 18, 2008 at 6:30 PM Diet & Nutrition News

According to an American researcher a diet with a chronic deficiency of vitamins and other "micronutrients" might lead to the onset of contemporary ills like cancer, obesity and the degenerative diseases of ageing.

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This finding was stated by Professor Bruce Ames, of the University of California, Berkeley, who invented one of the standard tests for cancer-causing chemicals.

He said that 1 or more of the 40 micronutrients essential for a healthy life were short in people�s diet.

However, Dr Ames told the American Association meeting that consumption of dietary supplements in the form of vitamin pills could aid in combating many age-related disorders.

According to him, a large number of people on a high-calorie diet in the West or poor diet in developing countries were deficient in many micronutrients. That�s what lead to the body enter an emergency "triage" response, where it tried to maintain balance of its metabolism by a process of compensation.

Though, immediate survival is guaranteed by adopting this mechanism, but its consequences include an increase in DNA damage, causing future cancers, a lowered immune defence, and a decay of the mitochondrial "power plants" of the cells, which causes accelerated ageing," he said.

He also said that a deficiency of minerals, vitamins and other nutrients could also be responsible for obesity to a certain extent.

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