Shaweta Shay Vasudeva
National Academy of Sports Medicine, USA
Title: Ketogenic: beneficial impacts on childhood obesity and metabolic syndrome
Biography
Biography: Shaweta Shay Vasudeva
Abstract
This oral presentation will focus on operationally defining ketogenics, covering clinical weight loss components and positive impacts on metabolic syndrome, a major risk factor of obesity. It will also cover the connection of metabolic syndrome to obesity while presenting research on the benefits of ketogenic diets on these conditions. Ketogenic diets have been utilized as early as the 1920’s for treatment of epileptic seizures in children. Research now indicates the metabolic alterations that occur within the human body during a ketogenic state can be a beneficial and viable treatment option for obesity. The research will highlight the works of: Cox et al. (2016), Dashti et al. (2004); Ede (2017); Freeman, Kossoff, & Hartman (2007); Roehl & Sewak (2017), & Volek et al. (2008) & (2016).
