Controlling diet effectiveness through smartphones: An android-based application design

Abstract

Obesity has become a global issue, and has almost doubled since 1980. One of the strategies chosen for handling or preventing obesity is by diet. Various types of diets are widely developed in the community, such as the ketogenic, Atkins, and mayo diet. There is no definitive data on what diet protocol is the most effective both in the short and long term. Provide an overview and data about diets that are most effective in losing weight. Analytic observational with cross sectional design. Subjects were the total population of women who took the Atkins, the ketogenic, and the Mayo diet at a diet provider in Bandung during 2017-2018 totalling 59 people. Data was analyzed using ANOVA test. To see the difference of those diets with duration 5 or 13 days, Independent T Test was tested. There were differences in weight loss and BMI in women who underwent the Atkins diet, ketogenic diet, and mayo diet with p=0.008 (p=0.05) for weight loss and p=0.007 (p value<0.05) for reduce BMI. The difference was also found in duration with p<0.001 (p value<0.05) for weight loss and p=0.001 (p value 50.05) for decrease in BMI. In both tests Mayo has the highest decrease in weight and BMI.