Something I usually struggle with a lot is researching and gaining information since I fall off task so easily. But surprisingly I was able to overcome and succeed in this task when researching for sources to write up my paper on Food Deserts and obesity. I was shocked because I found excellent quality sources and articles in two class periods. And With those resources I was able to complete an entire essay that I personally take pride in and put lots of hard work into making it a high quality piece of work. But the reason I was able to get all that research done so fast was because I was motivated to get it done since they were do at the end of class and I hadn't done any of it the whole week which is something I've definitely learned and grown from and I hope I will never let it get to that point ever again. But overall a great learning experience and I had lots of opportunities to grow from.
P.S. I couldn't get a screen shot of my sources to prove my research so I've copied and pasted them below. Resource Articles
2. "The Shocking Truth About Food Deserts and American Obesity." Spoon University. N.p., 23 July 2015. Web. 15 May 2017. <https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/food-desert-obesity-rates>. There are a lot of good facts in this article, extremely helpful. 23.5 million people in the United States live in food deserts, have 2.5 times the exposure to fast-food restaurants, death rate as a result of diabetes in food deserts was twice as high as the diabetes death rate in areas with access to large grocery stores that last one blows me away, TWICE AS HIGH! Thats nuts the obesity rate in food deserts is so much larger than any other area. For people to die twice as much from diabetes caused by obesity that's not good at all. 3. Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie, Deborah Cohen, Gerald Hunter, Shannon N. Zenk, Christina Huang, Robin Beckman, and Tamara Dubowitz. "Distance to Store, Food Prices, and Obesity in Urban Food Deserts." American journal of preventive medicine. U.S. National Library of Medicine, Nov. 2014. Web. 15 May 2017. <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4205193/>. I like this article because it doesn't just say; yes, you are more likely to see obesity in food deserts. But it says the higher the prices are at markets for fresh food the higher the obesity rate. Also it says the further away the store is the more likely they are to have higher obesity rates. 4. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/the-socio-economic-significance-of-food-deserts/ Food deserts also contribute significantly to obesity among low-income preschool children. All of which is to say, living in a food desert is not incidental, it has an independent effect on obesity and diabetes. There you go pure facts. This one talks about the children which isn't something i've covered yet so I will bring this up definitely.
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