Annoted Bibliography

Story, Mary. "Fast food restaurant Use among Adolescenst: Associantions with Nutrient Intake, Food Choices and Behavioral and Psychosocial Variables." International Journal of Obesity (2001): 1824-1831. Web. 8 Apr. 2014. <http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=adf36d4c-1b26-422e-babb-1a5f5f1abe4b%40sessionmgr4002&vid=2&hid=4104>

            The author of this article has a written many others like it. She has a long list of articles talking about obesity and the way it effects the body and the children in today’s world. The content in this article is mainly focused on the results that were collected from the studies that were collected from schools and talks about how the data is portrayed. The main argument of this article is to show how big of a difference is made when children eat healthy food compared to when they do not. Energy and attention are the main points that are highlighted. The intended audience for this article is parents that have children and buy their kids fast food. The research methods were surveys that were taken from thirty-one schools with kids ranging from seventh to twelfth grade. The author found that kids who eat fast food on a regular basis are more likely to become obese and have less energy and concentration because they are not receiving the necessary nutrients. This text is extremely reliable because the results were taken from real kids who were not asked to change their eating habits and the study was conducted by a group of professors from the University of Minnesota. A really important part of this article was the charts that were provided showing the data from the survey. The strengths of the text are the charts and seeing how the surveys were conducted. As of weaknesses in the article there are not any because everything in the article serves a purpose and without it some of the information would not be as complete.

            This article is helpful to my own research because it helps me see what the difference is between eating healthy compared to eating fast food. Seeing that fast food decreases the body’s energy is a huge step forward for my research and the charts help me see where improvements can be made. My reaction to the text was shocking. Seeing how big of a difference eating fast food makes was astonishing and now I realize that there are so many disadvantages to eating fast food that I did not see before.

Bowman, Shanthy. "Effects of Fast-Food Consumption on Energy Intake and Diet Quality Among Children in a National Household Survey." Pediatrics. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Apr. 2014.

            The author of this text is a doctor who does research for a website called pediatrics.org. She is a nutritionist and scientist for the USDA and holds a Ph.D. The content of this article is holds many statistics and data. The article looks at results from eating fast food and how it affects the body. The main argument of this article is how the consumption of fast food among children can cause an increase in children obesity. The intended audience is parents with children and parents who feed their kids fast food. The methods used to find this data was to run a survey with kids from the ages of four to nineteen and to ask them to keep their eating habits the same. The conclusions that were found were that kids who ate fast food were that kids who ate fast food had less energy. The reliability of this text is high. Being that the person who wrote it works for the USDA, they would not put inaccurate information in a public pediatric article. The highlight of this article was seeing the numbers in energy between kids who ate fast food and kids who did not. The strengths of this article was seeing the energy difference in numbers but the weakness of it was that the survey was only done for two days and the participants were only reviewed on one of the two days.

            This article helps me with my research because I can now see the real numbers in energy difference. I can look at the difference from a two-day survey compared to a longer survey that I found in a different piece of research. I was surprised to see how the numbers change from healthy eating children and unhealthy eating children. The difference between fiber, energy, and confidence interval were completely different.