Role of Calcium in Modulating Obesity

By Daniel M

presents a risk to health" (WHO 2012). A crude population measure of obesity is the

body mass index, a person's weight (in kilograms) divided by the square of his or her

height (in meters). A person with a body mass index equal to or more than 25 is

considered overweight, whereas body mass index of 30 or more is generally considered

obese. Overweight and obesity are major risk factors for a number of chronic diseases,

including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

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.

According to WHO, overweight and obesity are the fifth leading risks for global deaths.

At least 2.8 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese. In

addition, 44 per cent of the diabetes burden, 23 per cent of the ischemic heart disease

burden and between 7 per cent and 41 per cent of certain cancer burdens are attributable

to overweight and obesity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3434401571
• ISBN13: 9783434401575
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Asmtm
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"