Unfortunately, this promotion of calcium may result in a convenience to believe that increasing the amount of calcium in the diet will also increase the amount of weight that people can lose. Weight loss is always dependent on the number of calories eaten versus the number of calories burned. The number of calories burned by increasing the core temperature of the body through stored calcium may not be great enough to offset the potential risk for the development of kidney stones. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, April 2005, carried reports of research which contradicts the reported weight loss by calcium intake which other studies had shown. (35)
