Annotated Bibliography based on the research question, What are the possible long-term effects of childhood obesity?

Childhood Obesity Facts. (July 10, 2013). Retrieved October 20, 2013 from www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/obesity/facts.htm The main focus the website is trying make is to explain the possible effects that childhood obesity may have short-term and long-term on someones health. To do so the author first gives childhood obesity facts on how the percentage of overweight children has increased. The author includes immediate effects such as an increased risk of diseases and prediabetes. The author also included long-term health effects such as diseases, cancers, and diabetes. The information provided in this website helps me add information to my project because it gives direct facts of childhood obesity effects. Daniels, R. S. (2006). The Consequences of Childhood Overweight and Obesity. The Future of Children, 16(1), 47-67. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3556550?seq=1 Daniels explains the short-term and long-term risks of childhood obesity with his article. He also explains how certain health conditions only seen in adults are now being seen in overweight children. The author also included how being obese in childhood can increase the development processes of heart attacks and strokes in adulthood. Also included in this article is a table of disorders related to childhood obesity by the body systems. This article will help with my project to explain the increases of diseases from childhood to adulthood. Dietz, H. W. (1998) Childhood Weight Affects Adult Morbidity and Morality. Journal of Nutrition 128(2), 4115-4145. Retrieved from jn.nutrition.org/content/12812/4115.full Dietz explains how obesity in childhood affects adult morbidity and morality in

adulthood. He also explains the increased psychosocial effects in adulthood such as poverty, the incompletion of education, lower marriage rates, possibilities of cancers and diseases, and household income. Also included are tables of males and females with causes of death due to obesity in childhood, and also a table with predictive values of childhood obesity and obesity in adulthood. This article will help me with my project to explain the possibilities for increased health issues and the increased psychosocial effects that childhood obesity will have on individuals once into adulthood.

Robinson, A. (2012, March). CHILDHOOD OBESITY HOW MICHELLE OBAMA HELPED TO FIGHT IT. AND Magazine. Retrieved from www.andmagazine.com/content/phoenix/ 11987.html Robinson describes how First Lady Michelle Obama is working to help improve the health of many and future generations with her campaign. The author explains how obesity is one of the major causes of death and diseases in the United States. She also explains how childhood obesity is an issue of three things: human rights, health care, and economics. This magazine article helps me with my project to explain some different issues of childhood obesity and how childhood obesity is in the process to be resolved by First Lady Michelle Obama. Sharples, T. (2007, December). Lifelong Effects of Childhood Obesity. TIME Magazine. Retrieved from content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1692184,00.html Sharlpes explains the life-long effects that childhood obesity may have in this magazine. To do so, the author describes the estimated percentage of men and women who may be obese, ill, living with diseases by the year 2020, and the increase percentage of heart

disease deaths. The author also included a study from Danish citizens whom were born between 1930 and 1976 and explained how the increase of heart disease increased not only by weight, but also by age. This magazine article will help me with my project to explain the possible percent increase of health issues, diseases, and deaths within the future generations.