Prompt #10

Prompt #9

I began to find some sources about my topic which is fast food and obesity by using google scholar. Firstly, I wanted to find the facts of childhood obesity, then I just googling it and find a good article which is “ Incidence of Childhood Obesity in the United States ”. Moreover, I also wanted to find some books about my topic so I found some online books by searching in truman library.   

Cunningham, Solveig A., Michael R. Kramer, and KM Venkat Narayan. "Incidence of childhood obesity in the United States." New England Journal of Medicine 370.5 (2014): 403-411.

The article shows childhood obesity facts. It reports the the incidence of obesity and the data is from a large, nationally representative longitudinal study of children who were 5 to 14 years old.

Glickman, Dan, and Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention. Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation. Washington, D.C: National Academies Press, 2012;2011;. Web.

The book tells obesity is a major health problem in the United States and we need to work together to solve the problem.

Cartere, Jason Y. TV, Food Marketing And Childhood Obesity. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2009. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 24 Feb. 2016.

The book tells the television advertising increases the rise of childhood obesity rates and expose the effect of advertising to children by using a comprehensive analysis.

Prompt #8

My topic is about fast food and obesity. Fast food is one hot topic nowadays. Although fast food is very convenient and relatively cheap, It brings lots of bad effect on people’s health. Eating too much fast food will cause many diseases, especially obesity. Obesity is a big problem for Americans. I am going to focus on the childhood obesity. I am going to talk about why and how the fast food cause childhood obesity. I also have one point is fast food restaurant said they are healthy but they are not actually.    

Prompt #7

After completing SurveyMonkey survey and discussing about the survey in the class, I learned something about survey. First, It is very easy and helpful to use SurveyMonkey to create a survey. Second It is very important to create good survey questions. The questions should be specific. For example, the first time we finished creating our group questions, we gave the survey to other group and they answered all questions. One question like “What is your favorite type of food ”, That group’s answer is delicious food. But that is not the answer we expected because we want to know their favorite type of food just like Chinese, Mexican or Indian food. Therefore, when we create the survey questions, the questions should be more specific and we should give more detailed information. Moreover, we need to over all possible answers. For instance, a question like “ How many meals do you usually have at the end of the week?”, we need to consider the people who don’t have a weekly meal plan.

In addition, the survey shows most classmate prefer to eat sweet food in the evening. I don’t think It is good for our health. Because Eating a little bit sweet food is fine and good for your sleep. But If you eat a huge slice of cake or other sweet food, It will increase your blood-sugar level and disrupt your sleep. So I think most classmates should change the time of eating sweet food.  

Prompt # 6

After looking back over everything we talked, I am really interested in food culture and fast food. The first time I came to America, I felt It is very different food culture between Chinese food and American food. I feel I have a lot things to talk about food culture. Exploring the food culture is not just for studying, It is also for enjoying our lives. Since the food culture in different country is different, that makes lots of people be interested in exploring different food culture. They travel around the world for eating different food and learning about food culture. Food for them is a kind of lifestyle and a very important part of their lives. Moreover, the people who can not travel around the world, they study different food culture from Internet and try these food from different kinds of restaurant like Italy restaurant, Chinese restaurant and french restaurant. Therefore everyone can explore the food culture.

Fast food is also a very hot topic. Although fast food is fast and convenient for people especially for the people who don’t have enough time for eating, fast food has lots of bad influence. Eating too much fast food can cause different disease, and obesity. It is a very serious issue for Americans because it causes obesity. So it is very necessary to study the bad effect of fast food and appeals more people to eat healthy food and keep a balanced diet.  

Prompt #5

After reading the three articles, I found some differences which are their main arguments, their attitude to organic food and different narrate style.

1. main argument is different.

“Beyond Organic” focuses on the author's experience with organic products and tells us the benefits of growing organic food.

“ Organic Foods: Do Eco-Friendly Attitudes predict Eco-Friendly Behaviors ” is trying find and show the result of determining whether student awareness and attitudes about organic foods would predict their behaviors with regard to organic food consumption and other healthy lifestyle practices.

“Attention Whole Foods Shoppers” talks about lots of issues of whole foods, people should reject making food “sustainable” which is organic, local, and slow and people should find other ways to solve global deprivation.

     b. The attitude to organic food.

“Beyond Organic” and “ Organic Foods: Do Eco-Friendly Attitudes predict Eco-Friendly Behaviors ” have positive attitude to organic food and encourage more people eat organic food or growing organic food. However, “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers” is try to explain why people should reject organic farming.

    c. Different narrate style

“Beyond Organic” chooses the first personal statement way and focus on writer’s experience and opinion.

“ Organic Foods: Do Eco-Friendly Attitudes predict Eco-Friendly Behaviors ” focus on the study the writers did. Moreover, the writers show many details about the study, also use other sources and statistics to prove the main idea that most students preferred to purchase and consume organic foods.

“Attention Whole Foods Shoppers” is just like the research paper, which brings up the main argument and prove it.