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Oprah Winfrey’s public battle with weight loss took an added twist this month when her medical advisor revealed that she suffers from vitamin D deficiency.

“She had Vitamin D deficiency,” Dr. Mehmet Oz told CNN’s Larry King Live. “Why would that be shocking for a darker-skinned person who spends a lot of time in Chicago? If you’re watching this show right now, if you live in a Northern state, you are probably Vitamin D deficient. And then what does that cause?

Oz continued, “It causes auto-immune problems. So for her, it takes your thyroid gland — which is like your thermostat in your house and it shifts it off kilter, so you can’t quite get the right temperature in your body. And those things tend to lead to guess what — changes in the metabolism and weight gain.”

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Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, has been named one of The Top Ten Health Breakthroughs of 2008 by News Release Wire. As the author of the list states Byron Richards states, 'A major question during 2008 was: “Is there anything that vitamin D does not help?”'

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