SJSCIENCE
SJSCIENCE – ISSUE 40, FALL 2018

Issue No 40. Fall 2018

COMPARISON OF KETOGENIC AND VEGETARIAN DIET FOR WEIGHT LOSS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Students: Minan Ibrahim, Zahraa Kamona, Zainab Kamona and Cirsten Roberson

Mentor: Dr. V. Minakova

Almost everybody tried to diet at least once, hoping to lose those extra pounds. At least once? Probably several times! Did you notice that during the “diet times”, instead of watching what we eat, we watch what other people eat? Is it because the stuff on the plate of the person sitting next to us looks more attractive? Or is it because we are collecting the evidence about the effects of the different plate's contents on people’s weights? There are not many evidence – based recommendations about the efficacy of particular diets for weight loss. That gap SJSM students wanted to fill. They searched for properly designed studies to find the evidence about the efficacy of two popular diets. Take a look at their work…