Annotated Bibliography: Food Advertising And Childhood Obesity

Ashton, David. “Food Advertising and Childhood Obesity.” Journal Of The Royal Society Of Medicine. 97. February (2004): 51-52. Print. This article explains how food advertisement has direct relation to children’s obesity. The first study they discovered that parents have 15 time more effect on children’s obesity. The second study discovered that by obesity and food intake has made children half as active as they were 50 years ago. It’s actually calculated that kids burn about 600 calories way less than they did 50 years ago also. This source is reliable because it come from a yearly medicine journal. The writer David Ashton practices Epidemiology and Cardiac Medicine. To write this editorial he used 16 references, which include 16 writers …show more content…
So now that they watch more television their food choice is changing. Its estimated that kids watch 3 hours of television a day and in whole year it come out that they have watched 3,300 fast food commercials. It explains how 15 percent of the 6 to 9 year olds in The United States are overweight. This essay comes from the Nevada Journal of Public Health a journal from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. To write his paper it took him 12 reference that took doctors and some work from US Department of Health and Human Services. This is a fairly current article from 2008. This article’s goal is to educate other on something that we no longer see being a problem because we accept advertisement as a way of life. The statistics used in this article will make my essay more concrete. For example, how kids are experience more health problems at a younger age. The way that this article will help my essay is giving it statistic to make readers understand my argument. This article has only made my my views stronger because it has shown me that this is a …show more content…
It gives us the information that roughly 12.7 children from the ages of 9 to 17 are obese. That there has been trend growing in the last couple of years. It also has statistic proving that the most of the obese kids from the low income families. They also provided us with a map of the United States showing where the most obese people live and according to the Center of Disease Control most obese people live in Arkansas and Mississippi. This website is not just another website on the web. This Website is regulated by our government, but more specifically U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This website is also updated once year so you know the information you’re getting is up to date. This website is not bias its actually just giving you the facts as they come. The way I will use this on my paper is by opening my first body paragraph with obesity is and how it’s affecting our lives. The point of using this in my essay is make people realize that we have problem before telling where this problem is coming from. This website has only strengthened my opinion on this