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Annotated Bibliography: Nutrition
Jasmine M. Jarrett
Week 3
NTR 110: Nutrition
30 January 2022
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Annotated Bibliography: Nutrition
Carroll, A. (2015). To Lose Weight, Eating Less Is Far More Important Than
Exercising More (Published 2015). Nytimes.com. Retrieved 31 January 2022,
from https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/upshot/to-lose-weight-eating-lessis-far-more-important-than-exercising-more.html.
In this lengthy article, Aaron compares the difference between nutrition and exercise and their
impact on the weight loss journey of individuals who want to lose fats in their bodies. Even
though critics argue that exercise in the most needed in the process, they seem to overlook the
importance of diet. The article is meant to keep the attention of most young people glued to the
fact that diet is vital for those trying to lose weight. Aaron writes in a persuasive manner in a way
seemingly to convince the readers that dieting is more important that exercise and fitness.
Personal stories are also included to further convince the readers. The article could be more
sufficient if both sides of the story, both upsides and downsides, would be included.
Wooton, A., & Melchior, L. 2017. Obesity and type 2 diabetes in our Elderly: A recipe for
cardiovascular disease. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 13(3), 222-227.
doi:10.1016/j.nurpra.2016.08.035
The study is based on the fact that the relationship between type 2 diabetes and insulin
sensitivity, tolerance and cardiovascular disease is still speculation among researchers. Obesity is
looked at from the perspective of it being the cause of cardiovascular disease. The researchers
attribute the causes of diabetes to lifestyle and weight of an individual. Its risks are mostly
looked at from the adult’s perspective, and healthcare providers often ignore risks among
children. The article, therefore, looks at the management of the disease among the elderly to help
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curb the rising cases and the role of the nurse practitioner in reducing diabetes cases among
children. It is concluded that new mechanisms should be considered to be formal in the
development of domains. The author has evaluated the contribution of the psychological and
moral domain and sum than to a broad contemporary literature. Such literature placed a focus on
the inborn and learned social values that affect the character and interactions of individuals with
others in society. From this case, the personal character is usually inborn and very hard to be
changed. Learned characters only occur when an individual socializes with a friend and other
people in society.
Richards, J., Jiang, X., Kelly, P., Chau, J., Bauman, A., & Ding, D. (2015). Don’t
worry, be happy: cross-sectional associations between physical activity and
happiness in 15 European countries. BMC Public Health, 15(1).
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1391-4
In this article, Richard et al. reveal the nutrition is important and relates happiness and the
volume of physical activity. The authors include personal opinions and stats on how diet and
physical fitness is influential on the kind of mental illness one acquires. From their analysis,
there is minimal influence of physical activities on mental illness. It could be difficult to read and
comprehend the information on the article due to the kind of complex language and explanation
used. However, it is vital for it provides results and stats from recent studies about nutrition in
inactive patients with some illnesses. Physical fitness and proper nutrition no only impact the
health of individual, but happiness too.
Alouki, K., Delisle, H., Bermúdez-Tamayo, C., & Johri, M. (2016). Lifestyle Interventions
to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review of Economic Evaluation
Studies. Journal Of Diabetes Research, 2016, 1-14. doi: 10.1155/2016/2159890
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The article addresses lifestyle interventions intending to prevent type 2 diabetes. The
author looks at the cause of diabetes from a lifestyle perspective, therefore aims at confirming
that lifestyle interventions can help prevent it. It involves a review of studies which showed
obesity control is effective in preventing diabetes. Physical activity and diet were also costeffective strategies. The author aims at the implementation of proper diabetes management with
the benefits to the children and their families. The pros and cons of different technology used in
diabetes management. The methodology used by the author is use of a total of 20 reviewed
studies that confirmed the hypothesis, proving that lifestyle interventions are useful and should
be promoted. The article relates to type 1 diabetes is to children due to its high occurrence among
them, whereas type 2 is looked at from the adult perspective. There are high chances that this
inborn trait could be overtaken by time and lost. The article evaluates the interaction between
nature and nurture during the life of an individual and how it contributes to diabetes.
Shelton, A., Zhao, J., & Roush, R. (2002). Economic, Ecological, Food Safety,
and Social Consequences of the Deployment of Bt Transgenic Plants. Annual
Review Of Entomology, 47(1), 845-881.
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ento.47.091201.145309
This article provides research on the potential human health and ecological consequences of Bt
transgenic plant, where it includes its effects on food safety, nontarget organism, and resistant
insect populations resistant. From their analysis, it is revealed that most scientists do not have
dietary and nutritional knowledge on the benefits and risks those strategies of insect management
have. The article does not only focus on food safety but reveals other social, ecological, and
economic factors. It is a sufficient piece because it provides information from different
perspectives.
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