Abstract:
Obesity, a nutritional disorder, has become one of the major challenges for
public health in the 21st century. The serious adverse consequences of obesity are
insulin resistance, type-2 diabetes mellitus, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease,
cardiovascular complications, osteoarthritis, depression, and also cancer. The
fundamental cause of obesity involves an imbalance in the energy homeostasis in the
body, basically due to the increased consumption and decreased expenditure of calories,
eventually increasing the adiposity. According to the World Health Organization
estimates, the prevalence of obesity has tripled in just forty-one years worldwide across
all the age groups, reaching pandemic levels.
