James, Janet, Peter Thomas, David Cavan, and David Kerr.

"Preventing Childhood Obesity

by Reducing Consumption of Carbonated Drinks: Cluster Randomised
Controlled Trial." Hwadmin. BMJ, 2004. Web. 03 Nov. 2014.
This article is about the obesity prevalence and the alarming rate that obesity has increased
in the past three decades. The article finds that 66% of US adults were overweight or obese
in 2003-2004. Another thing that I learnt is that 80% of black women aged 40 years or over
are overweight; 50% are obese. I used this article because, first it gives me lots of states
about the different races and how obesity has effected those people.

"Obesity Rate in the U.S. Has Increased at an Alarming Rate over the past Three Decades."
News-Medical.net. N.p., 11 July 2007. Web. 03 Nov. 2014.
This talks about obesity in children and how reducing consumption of
carbonated drinks can help to prevent excessive weight gain in children. It was
written by university professors. The study was completed on about 6 junior
schools in the U.S. they found that theoretically , daily consumption of one can
of a sweetened carbonated drink over a 10 year period in a constant
environment can add up to 50 kg of weight to a person. I used this article
because it gives information on children and the reasons that they become
obese.

Shah, Anup. Obesity. Global Issues. 21 Nov. 2010. Web. 24 Nov. 2014.
First the article starts off by stating that the number of people who are overweight or with
obesity rivals the number of people who are hungry in the world. This article also
has some good maps that show how obese different parts of the world is. Another

thing is that is that it shows some facts like: Amerians eat 31% more packaged food
than fresh food.k