This source talks about the traffic light labeling used int he UK and Australia. This source is very crucial to my research because it explains the traffic light labeling and that is a large part of my paper. Also it gets consumer reactions to the system and that will be essential to my paper as well.
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This article talks about fast food and its impact on this generation. It involves McDonald's legal battles with people becoming obese. This article has insite the obesity issue, that will be helpful to my paper. The outlook had good percentages to age to college kids consuming fast food.
This article focuses the decline in reading in this generation. It is a very general topic of literacy and does not focus on nutrition at all. It is useful to me for statistics. It has great percentages I can use to support many of the points I want to make.
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This study done by Holmes and others focused on mostly white UK households aimed to achieve goals. It compares three dietary survey methods and identifies which method is valid and acceptable in the UK households. This source of research that shows surveys work. It is slightly off from my focus topic but is helpful in confirming certain other tests. The fact that it is done in the UK helps diversify the location and add to the validity of other results.
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This article discusses diabetes. It goes into the background and outlook of the disease. DIscussing how manageable it is. This article is off topic but can be a good side note to the obesity epidemic. I can use it to support the diseases caused by overeating and under-exercising.
This article adresses obesity increasing in the US. It is less current (1999) but still useful facts about the background of over-eating. The chronology is useful to my research. Also the article has good background that I can use in my introduction.
This article addressed the increasing obesity in the US. The article is helpful becuase of its focus of the unhealthy aspects of over-eating. I can use its mention of the food industry seeling high-suger, high-fat foods. This can be useful in my introduction. Also it is current (2003).
This article is about college students health choices. The study adresses college students choices in food purchasing based on label reading. The case studies purchasing choices after the experiment , this can be useful to my study. Also the introduction can help support my research.
This source contains vital statistics that will be pertanent to my research. The background info is repetative to the nature of the NLEA. It discuesses the new food labeling system and how and why to use it. Also it is current and focuses on the "looking" at labels, which relates to literacy
Todd and Variyum research the use of nutritional labels. This study finds that numbers have gone done from 1995 to 2006, in how many people read the nutritional facts labels on foods. They concluded that the majority of this decrease was from people 30 and younger. This source was very valid becuase it comes from the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) and has reputable sources.
not necessarily an article but it is a guide to help you read the nutrition facts. I wanted to bookmark this so that I could refer to it at sometime possibly, and others may be interested to see it.
Signal and team explore New Zealand and the low-income inhibiters. This study used focus groups to question 158 shoppers. They concluded that many did not have time to read the labels or did not have the understanding to do so. This study was well organized and had useful conclusions. Also its background was informative, and the study itself added that people of New Zealand lack education to read the nutrition labels, it is not just in the US.
This article was a study done to test weather random participants would shop healthier after given education on reading labels. The results showed increases in three of the nine food groups but untimately the increases were not significant enough to conclude anything. This study was short but had references so it is reputable.
