Dietary Calcium Intake And Obesity

The elevated prevalence of obesity worldwide is a challenging public health problem.

Dietary calcium intake and obesity. Osteoporosis inadequate calcium intake has been linked to hypertension insulin resistance and certain cancers 18 21. Calcium obesity and the role of the calcium sensing receptor. Epidemiologic data supporting the obesity dietary calcium relationship. Nutrition reviews volume 72 issue 10 pages 627 637.

Research linking inadequate calcium intake and obesity. High calcium intake depresses levels of parathyroid hormone and 1 25 hydroxy vitamin d. Obesity is increasing in the united states in epidemic proportions. Epidemiologic data suggest that people with high calcium intake have a lower prevalence of overweight obesity and insulin.

The association of dietary calcium with the incidence of overweight obesity was also assessed. Obesity is a world wide problem that not only dramatically increases health costs but also causes a significant reduction in healthy life years or what i have called healthspan. In addition recent research has shown an association between inadequate calcium intake and overweight in young children 22 as well as obesity in adults 23 25. At baseline an inverse association between total calcium intake and all the adiposity indices was consistently observed in boys while only ss and fmi were significant in girls.

Villarroel p et al. These decreased hormone levels cause decreases in intracellular calcium thereby inhibiting lipogenesis and stimulating lipolysis. 2 3 lnfluence of dietary calcium intake on body weight 2 3 1 the agouti gene intracellular calcium and obesity 2 3 2 relation between dietary calcium and intracellular calcium 2 3 3 relation between dietary calcium and dietary fat absorption 2 4 human studies linking calcium intake to body weight 2 4 1 studies done on adults.