Subject: Obesity

Essay Focus: Teach Your Children Well: Parental responsibility as the

cure to obesity.
Basic Research Questions:
1. What is obesity and why is it an important issue? (INTRO)
2. What background information is necessary to understand this issue
fully?
3. What solutions have been put forth to help solve the obesity crisis?
4. Why is parental responsibility the basis of each solution?
5. Based on my research, why do I conclude that parental
responsibility is the best solution for the obesity crisis?
(CONCLUSION)
Expanded Research Questions:
1. What is obesity and why is it an important issue? (INTRO)
a. statistics
b. story
c. thesis
2. What background information is necessary to understand this issue
fully?
a. brief history of crisis
b. brief effects of crisis
3. What solutions have been put forth to help solve the obesity crisis?
a. Dietary solutions
b. Exercise solutions
4. Why is parental responsibility the basis of each solution?
5. Based on my research, why do I conclude that parental
responsibility is the best solution for the obesity crisis?