Annotated Bibliography

Boneberger, A., von Kries, R., Milde-Busch, A., Bolte, G., Rochat, M. K., & Rückinger, S. (2009). Association between peer relationship problems and childhood overweight/obesity. Acta Paediatrica, 98(12), 1950-1955. doi:10.1111/j.1651-2227.2009.01484.x

The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between characteristic problems and overweight/obesity, in 5 to 6 year old boys and girls. In how the parental obesity, maternal smoking in pregnancy, snacking while TV watching, low parental education, high TV consumption, and high birth weight are associated with overweight/obesity, and the probability  that Childhood obesity leads to have serious problems and  tend to stay obese in adulthood.

Callwood, G. B., Campbell, D., Gary, F., & Radelet, M. L. (2012). Health and Health Care in the U.S. Virgin Islands: Challenges and Perceptions. ABNF Journal, 23(1), 4-7

This research was designed to discover how residents of the United States Virgin Islands think about their health, health status, health problems, and the quality of the health care delivery system. This article is useful because it provides very current information into how the people of this city know their own problems and what disease they can have if they don’t protect or prevent. 

Neighborhood fast food restaurants and fast food consumption: A national study. (2011). BMC Public Health, 11(1), 543-550. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-11-543.

This article has the effect of the fast food consumption in young adults in the U.S, and has a high risk for obesity. And the neighborhood fast food restaurant promotes more consumption. So they want to reduce the consumption of fast food in young adults .and have a better preferences about when we decide to eat something.

H. B., Binns, H. J., Meadow, W. L., & Tanz, R. R. (2006). Marketing Fast Food: Impact of Fast Food Restaurants in Children's Hospitals. Pediatrics, 118(6), 2290-2297. doi:10.1542/peds.2006-1228

This has the objective, to determine how hospitals environment affects purchase and perception of fast food. Because this restaurants “McDonald’s” prevalence in hospitals with pediatric residencies. So fast food consumption is the most common among hospitals that have McDonalds’ restaurants than just fast food. But also because McDonald’s is a big company who give to the hospitals a great financial support. This is very important because we see how a place that is not healthy in their food, have a good relation with this association in the hospitals.

, I., Curioni, C., & Sichieri, R. (2012). Association between eating out of home and body weight. Nutrition Reviews, 70(2), 65-79. doi:10.1111/j.1753-4887.2011.00459.x

This source explains how affect to the society the eating outside of the home. Because when we eat out of home, the food has a usually high in energy content, and contributes to excessive energy and obesity. And this problem is more frequently in adults over 18 years of age. And for better result they recommend that fast-food restaurants should be analyses by a positive association that control the good and bad aliments. With this can also provide the data of the better result of the people who is doing a good diet for the preventions of symptoms that the obesity produce, like heart attacks

Todd, T. P., Winterbauer, N. E., & Bouton, M. E. (2012). Contextual control of appetite. Renewal of inhibited food-seeking behavior in sated rats after extinction. Appetite, 58(2), 484-489. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2011.12.006

This article studies the inhibition of food-seeking behavior, and how contextual cues can control it. And how obesity, and overeating have become fundamental problems in modern society.  Also this article shows to us some experiments that the company does with children’s that prefer and ice cream than a snack food that is better for their organism. Because, the humans are more motivated to eat food that is more modern for the society, like, ships, burger, fast food, than healthy food. This is important for my research because it directly links about the exactly problem of these aliments disorders. 

Winter, C. F., Bastiaanse, L. P., Hilgenkamp, T. M., Evenhuis, H. M., & Echteld, M. A. (2012). Overweight and obesity in older people with intellectual disability. Research In Developmental Disabilities, 33(2), 398-405. doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2011.09.022

This article focuses on the overweight and obesity in the people. The increased cardio vascular disease risk, because most of the people have a big percent of body mass. Also in this article the association of overweight and obesity, have participants with a lot of different characteristics, like their gender, age, people with Down syndrome, autism or people who have their independent living. With this information we can know that all people, no matter their own characteristics can have a seriously problem of obesity.