The effectiveness of Iranian applications on adolescent weight loss

The issue of controlling obesity in teenagers is one of the most important issues related to their health. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of celery weight management application on weight loss of obese teenagers.

The present randomized clinical trial was conducted on 30 obese teenagers aged 13-17. They were divided into two groups of 15 people, control and intervention (use of celery application for 8 weeks). Before participating in the study, obese adolescents were medically examined and the necessary information was collected. Anthropometric indices were measured once before the beginning of the intervention and once after the end of the intervention (end of 8 weeks). The data were analyzed using SPSS version 24 statistical software with a significance level of less than 0.05.

The average height of teenagers in the control group was 1.62 ± 0.07 meters and in the intervention group it was 1.62 ± 0.06 meters. Changes in weight and BMI in both control and intervention groups at the end of the study compared to the beginning of the study had a decreasing trend, but only in the intervention group it was significant (P ≤ 0.05). The 8 weeks of using the Iranian Celery application had a significant effect on the weight loss and BMI of teenagers in the intervention group.

It seems that weight loss applications such as celery can be used as one of the effective and helpful methods along with other methods to deal with obesity.