“ MLA Annotated Bibliography on Fast Food Restaurants and schools."

1. Proximity of Fast-Food Restaurants to Schools and Adolescent Obesity.
Davis, Brennan, and Christopher Carpenter. "Proximity of Fast-Food Restaurants to Schools and Adolescent Obesity." American Journal of Public Health 99.3 (2009): 505-510. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 26 Apr. 2010.
This article explains how the proximity of fast food restaurants to schools affects children’s health. Since these restaurants are just a couple of blocks away from their schools these places are the ones kids visit the most. The distance between schools and fast food restaurants is so small, that most of the times as soon as the students get out of school go over to get a quick meal.


2. KIDS, FAST FOOD, & OBESITY.
Wood M. KIDS, FAST FOOD, & OBESITY. Agricultural Research [serial online]. October 2009;57(9):20-21. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed April 26, 2010
Fast food restaurants offer a kid’s meal, made out of a small portions of products made by the company, the problem with these meals is that no all of them meet the standards set by the national school lunch program, some of them being to high in fat, but to low in protein. The fact that they don’t meet the standards set by the school, is very scary because when we think of schools we think of a safety place that is going to lead our kids down the right path. But instead they are being infected by these bunch of calories that are affecting they health.


3.Fast food: unfriendly and unhealthy.
Stender, S., J. Dyerberg, and A. Astrup. "Fast food: unfriendly and unhealthy." International Journal of Obesity 31.6 (2007): 887-890. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 26 Apr. 2010.
Studies have shown that obesity might be cause by many different factors we acquire while consuming fast food products. The source shows and example base on monkey’s bodies reactions after an unhealthy diet (fast food) compare to a healthy one. Fast food products contribute to weight gain, obesity, type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease. Is crucial that as reasonable human beings that we are to paid more attention to what we consume, we only get to live once and we need to appreciate our lives and health.