Anti-Obesity Effect of Calcium

Abstract

Obesity is today’s most blatantly visible yet most neglected public health problem. Once considered a problem only in high income countries, overweight and obesity are now drastically on the rise in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in urban settings. Paradoxically coexisting with undernutrition, an escalating global epidemic of overweight and obesity- ‘globosity’ is taking over many parts of the world. Obesity is a complex condition, one with serious social and psychological dimensions, that affects virtually all ages and socio-economic groups and threatens to overwhelm both developed and developing countries. The identification of factors that influence energy balance is an important issue in the research field of nutrition and becomes a growing necessity in the context of obesity epidemic throughout the world.