Research Plan

Title: Causes of Obesity in the Children of America
Topic Focus: Showing some of the causes that are the reason children are becoming obese.
Scope: In my project I intend to cover how obesity is becoming a much larger problem in children in America, and what is causing this that wasn’t a problem in the past.
Outline:
I. Talk about obesity in generalA. Talk about obesity in childrenB. Talk about health issues that make obesity such a problemII. CausesA. Diet1. Sugars and fats2. Eating outB. TV1. Food ads2. Kids watch too much TVC. Exercise1. Lack of2. Too much video games and no outside playIII. What can be done to fix the problem
Academic Disciplines: Health, medicine, and nutrition.
Key Terms: Obesity, obesity in children, obesity in America, obesity health problems, childhood obesity, causes of childhood obesity.
Nature of Topic: Current information will be best for statistics and information on children with obesity. Articles on ProQuest should have current information along with a lot of other information.
Library of Congress Classification (LC) Areas: Medicine, R. Pediatrics, RJ. Nutrition and feeding of children and adolescents, RJ206-235. Child health, child health services, RJ101-103. Genetic aspects, RJ47.3-47.4.

I changed my focus because I am not doing health problems obesity causes anymore, I am doing what causes the obesity. I also changed my outline because I didn’t really have one before but now I know better what I want to do.