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by mensetmanusman 1435 days ago
Sorry, meant to post the connections people are researching between vitamin-D deficiency and obesity:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5691711/

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Surprise: normal-weight people spend time sunbathing, while obese people do not.

This is a great example of why correlation does not imply causation.

Note that there are few ethical ways to prove single variable causation over long times in human studies :)