Genny Gardner

Annotated Bibliography

Shell, Ellen Ruppel. Whose Fault Is It Really? Long Island, New York: Newsday
Combined Editions. 20 July, 2003. A.28. Web. Proquest 27 Oct. 2015.
http://search.proquest.com.dbprox.slcc.edu/docview/279635732/CA930299E738430C
PQ/6?accountid=28671#center
Shell is a professor and co-director of the Knight Center for science and Medical
Journalism at Boston University. She also corresponds and contributes her
writing with national publications such as the Washington Post, Smithsonian,
New York Times, Seed, Audubon, and Discover. She is known for writing about
issues from science and public policy. Shell is also the author of three books
one of them being The Hungry Gene: The science of Fat and the Future of
Thin which touches on the spreading obesity pandemic.

This a great article because it touches on both views for the cause of
obesity which are: personal responsibility and fast food. In the defense of
obesity being a personal responsibility Shell talks about how if humans
changed their food environment and choices then the result could be a
decrease in obesity and un-healthy humans. Shell talks about another great
support example which was a study in Finland. Their government sponsored a
program to provide free salads in restaurants and the result was that there
was a dramatic increase in vegetable consumption and a decrease in fat
intake in the general population. This showed that when people are offered a
real choice they will often make the healthy choice. It also showed that
money was a factor in this study but it shows that if people are willing to pay
a little more than they can avoid the road to obesity. On the other hand in
Fast Foods defense Shell talks about how some people are biologically
inclined to overeat and it can depend on the environment that they are in.
Children today are growing up in an environment that bombards them with
junk-food advertisements, and fast easy-access food places that are pleasing
to the eye as well as cheap. Shell does a great job on explaining how it is our
personal responsibility but by touching on both subjects to explain that she
recognizes both sides to the argument which will help with my essay.
Hummel, Marta. Report shifts fault to the fat Local health officials agree that its up
to individuals to eat better and exercise. Medills News Service York Daily
Record. York, Pennsylvania. 03 July, 2003. C03. Web. Proquest 27 Oct. 2015.
http://search.proquest.com.dbprox.slcc.edu/docview/274363360/BC9A6BEC37AB47D
0PQ/3?accountid=28671##
Hummel was a former columnist for The Baltimore Sun and The Frederick NewsPost. She also won the 2007 Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Associations award.
Hummel holds a masters in journalism from Northwestern University as well as a B.A.
in English from the University of Virginia.

This article touches on a rebuttal that many critics said the fast food chains
victimize poorer populations with little education which isnt the case. This article
states that college-educated students accounted for most of the growth in BMI. It
also talks about how many people are making the choices to eat fast food and not
making time to exercise and keep their bodies in good shape. Although fast food isnt
the only contributor in obesity, its a big part of it. This supports that it is peoples own
personal responsibility to take care of themselves and its their fault if they choose to
continue to eat fast food.

Brownell, Kelly D. Personal Responsibility And Obesity: A Constructive Approach To A

Controversial Issue. Health Affairs. March 2010. Vol. 29 no. 3. Web. 27 Oct. 2015.
http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/29/3/379.full?%3f
Brownell is the founding director of the Rudd Center for Obesity and Food policy at
Yale University. He focuses on prevention and treatment for Obesity. Hes worked on
many studies to try to treat obesity but ended up sticking to obesity prevention. He
is currently slowly trying to change policys dealing with food to try to improve health
for those dealing with obesity.
Brownell goes into depth with each view of obesity and touches on a lot of the major
problems, causes, and effects of obesity. He addresses ways to slowly change and try
to prevent sugars from entering the body. One of which is taxing all sugary drinks
which can slowly get people to not drink as many unhealthy beverages. He provides
many sources with his article which can back up his statements. He introduces views
about the governments role and how it shouldnt just be a personal responsibility
and how more should be done to decrease the obesity rates.
Lee, Seow Ting, and Hoang Lien Nguyen. Explicating the Moral Responsibility of the
Advertiser: Tares as an Ethical Model for Fast Food Advertising. Department of
Communications and New Media. National University of Singapore. 2013. Taylor and
Francis Group, Routledge. Web. 28, Oct. 2015.
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sid=bdc8a442-8a17-4439-a03d-7a9cd0d32168%40sessionmgr112&vid=6&hid=108
Lee is the head deputy of the Department of Communications and New Media at the
National University of Singapore. She focuses on public relations and health
communications. She has her M.A. and PhD. From the University of Missouri School of
Journalism. She has participated and published many journals having to do with
health and science. Couldnt determine/ find Hoang Lien Nguyen, but assuming he
works along the same line of work as Lee.
This is an amazing source because it talks about the standards for advertising and
how fast food companies manipulate their advertisements to attract the desired
attention. This article also provides charts to support the studies of advertisements.
For example fast food places will offer toys with the kids meals in order to persuade
young children to eat their food. This is bad because children are eating fast food
constantly which is increasing their weight and their chances of health problems like
diabetes. It shows how much influence fast food places have on humans these days.
Frazier, Dustin A. The Link between Fast Food And The Obesity Epidemic. Health Matrix:
Journal of Law-Medicine. Spring 2007. Vol. 17. Web. 28 Oct. 2015.

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Couldnt locate Dustin A Frazier on the internet to check his credibility.
It describes what addiction is and how it is applicable to fast food. Performed studies
with rats that resemble similarities to a smoking addiction, but with food. It goes into
depth about how the rats reacted to the withdrawal of the food, and how they
longed for the fatty food. This is a great source for the obesity topic because it
defends fast food in a great way by showing that it has addictive qualities to the food.
It also supports that fast food adds more sugar and fat compared to non-fast food,
food. It also shows how this eating disorder (obesity) affects society as a whole, cost
wise. On the other hand it hasnt been proven on humans. Its not connected with
drugs and smoking in the same way.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/11/tc-teardown-brand-advertising/ marketing chart

Karriem-Norwood, Varnada. Health Risks Linked to Obesity. Webmd.com January 2014.
Web. 06 Nov. 2015. http://www.webmd.com/diet/obesity/obesity-health-risks
Karriem-Norwood is an attending Physician at the Dekalb Medical Center in Atlanta.
She is trained and certified in both internal medicine as well as emergency medicine.
Completed her residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and served as chief
resident in both departments. She has also worked for Ross University and Medical
School in the Caribbean, and Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. While in Atlanta she
served as the associate medical director for the emergency department, the medical
director for the Chest Pain Center, and developed the first Care Management Unit at
the Grady Memorial Hospital.
This website in general talks about medical related issues and definitions. For my
essay it helps list and define the many risks of obesity that can happen and how they
affect the human body.