Annotated Bibliography

Brian Doyle
ENG102
SEC. 4628
WP#2 Draft

I am researching the health effects of high fructose corn syrup. Some individuals believe it is unhealthy causing individuals to be over weight and associated other health issues like diabetes with its consumption. The main controversy this product has been blamed for is obesity. Many argue it affect the human body differently causing us to be hungry sooner. It also is blamed for obesity because of the number of foods it is found in today raising the amount of daily caloric intake. Many defend the product by debating there has been a lot of changes in society to date that could be contributing to obesity. For example; we lead more sedentary life styles, if HFCS was not in products then sugar would be causing the same affects. It is also debated that it is no worse then plain old table sugar and it is the same thing as eating a piece of fruit.

Source #1

This source comes from ebcohost from the MCC library. Brian Howard is a freelance writer from Connecticut. Most of his articles are about food, nutrition, and sports. I could not find any information about him that may cause bias. His beliefs were unclear that could have contributed what he wrote about this topic. The article contains information about the rise in the amount of sweeteners Americans consume in a year and also talks about products it is used in. It also mentions a research that I have been researching the finding of to help support my point. This article contains information about other alternative sweeteners and why these may be better for us. This article did not provide me with a lot of information to support my topic but it did give me some ideas to continue my research.

Howard, 2006, Sugar or Sweetener?, The Environmental Magazine Mar/Apr2006, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p40-41, 2p

Source #2

This source comes from The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. It is written by Michael F.Jacobson from The Center for Science in the Public Interest. This article is a publication of Mr. Jacobson’s concern of information polished by Mr. Bray and Mr. Popkins about HFCS in soda and its link to obesity. This information is helpful in the fact that it will provide me with more avenues disputing this controversy. I have been unsuccessful finding the information to follow up with on the internet I will continue my research of my leads at the library and revise this for my final draft. Even thought I was not able to get immediate information for my draft it will be helpful in providing a rhetorical situation for my audience.

Jacobson, 2004, High Fructose Syrup and the Obesity Epidemic, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Vol. 80, 1081, 2004

Source #3

This source came from the Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and The Healing Arts, it is a quarterly magazine published by Weston A. Price Foundation. Linda Forristal CCP, MTA is a former Board Member of Weston A. Price Foundation. The Weston A. Price Foundation is a non-profit charity to support the on going research of whole foods and nutrition. I chose this source because it provides some diversity of my sources. The writer included in short detail consumption, enzymes used to make the HFCS and how it makes it unnatural, how the need for this product came at a good time for the corn industry, the products HFCS is used in, and information on a research product that was conducted. This was one of my first articles that I discovered it has beneficial in leading me to other research data. This source gave me information in the beginning to think about and research more in depth. This source in similar to other sources in the information it pertains to. This article was written in a short to the point fashion without a lot of technical detail like most of my other sources.

Forristal, 2001, The Murky World of High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and The Healing Arts, Weston A. Price Foundation fall 2001

Source #4

This source comes from ebcohost from the MCC library. Michael Pollan wrote this article and it appeared in Time magazine. Michael is a writer for The New York Times and is a professor at UC Berkley. The writer is an environmental journalist and has written a couple of different books pertaining to diet. He seems to believe in eating healthy would contribute to his interest on this topic. The article is helpful by supporting the fact of trying to avoid high fructose corn syrup. It is also written in away that is very basic and not over whelming for the reader. It is recommending to consumers to avoid HFCS in their diets and list a number of foods to look for the product in. it listed a couple of products that I found useful because most people do not realize how many products contain HFCS. The thing I like about this article the most is that the writer conveyed a message to be health conscious and to watch labels but did not give the impression he was bashing the product.

Pollan, 2006, Six Rules for Eating Wisely, Time Magazine 6/12/2006, Vol. 167 Issue 24, p97-97, 1p, 6c

Source #5

This source came from Thomas Gale through the MCC library. It was written by Marilyn Schorin unfortunately I was unable to find any background information on her. I found this article interesting in the fact it is trying to debate the overall causes of the consumption of high fructose corn syrup and there may be a correlation with other deficiencies in the body that cause related health issue in combination to its consumption. I need to obtain a full article of the writers finding, and more background information before coming to any conclusions.

Schorin, 2006 High fructose corn syrups, Part 2: health effects. Food Science, In Nutrition Today, Vol. 41, p70(8) 2006.

Source #6

This article comes from The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Peter J Havel received his Ph.D in Endocrinology, and works for University of California, Davis nutrition department. Judith S Stern S.M. Sc.D. Nutrition from Harvard university School of Public Health and works for University of California, Davis nutrition department. Karen L. Teff, received her Ph.D. from McGill University she is presently a working at Monell Chemical Senses Center. These writers co-wrote this article to bring awareness to the nutritional field on the effects fructose has on weight gain and insulin resistance. This article is technically written providing me with important technical information I will need. I have gather information from this paper about the foods HFCS is in, how it effects insulin levels, its effects on energy levels, how the body metabolizes it, how our organs process it and what the end result is for all of these. The most beneficial attribute of this paper is that with the number of writers it includes it has covered a wide variety of information that is important to my project.

Elliott, Keim, Stern, Teff, & Havel, 2002, Fructose, Weight Gain, and Insulin Resistance Syndrome, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Vol. 76, 911-922 2002.

Source #7

This source came from The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Bantle JP is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Raatz SK is the Senior Research Associate at the University of Minnesota. Thomas W Moon did this research at the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia. Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology at the University of Minnesota. This article covers the information on a study that was conducted on 24 healthy subjects. The information covers the results of the effects HFCS has on the Plasma Lipids in Healthy subjects. This study provides information for my project to better understand how HFCS effect insulin and weight gain on humans. I chose this source because the writers of this paper are very creditable in terms of education and background. This source is very similar to the article titled Fructose, Weight Gain, and Insulin Resistance Syndrome because it is written very technically, cover the same ideas but in a different manner, and comes from the same source.

Bantle, Raatz, Thomas, & Georgopoulos. May 2004 Effects of Dietary
Fructose on Plasma Lipids in Healthy Subjects. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Vol. 79, No. 5, 711-712, 2004.

Source #8

This source was published in a book called An Epidemic of Obesity Myths. This source is debating that HFCS found in soda specifically is a cause for the rising obesity epidemic. Which was written and published by Mr. Bray and Mr. Popkins. The same article that was debated in another source I used by Mr. Jacobson. Although the excerpt is very short it as well has giving me a lead on controversy surrounding this topic. This is beneficial information for my project to help me understand the debate and controversy of this topic. This article as well will need to be followed up by more research to finalize it for my final draft.

(Unknown at this time) Myth: High-Fructose Corn Syrup Is Especially Fattening, An Epidemic of Obesity Myths, 106-107, 2004

I looked over my document after reading through the chapter. I found myself checking my margins a suggested and how I was using white space throughout my document. Everything in these areas seemed to be in check. However I did add Heading. I did this mainly because I felt one could be confused by which citing was for each individual annotated bibliography. I think it definitely helped organized my document

This article is a publication of Mr. Jacobson’s concern of information polished by Mr. Bray and Mr. Popkins about HFCS in soda and its link to obesity. This information is helpful in the fact that it will provide me with more avenues disputing this controversy. I have been unsuccessful finding the information to follow up with on the internet I will continue my research of my leads at the library Jacobson, 2004, High Fructose Syrup and the Obesity Epidemic, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Vol. 80, 1081, 2004 http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/80/5/1446a?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&andorexacttitle=and&andorexacttitleabs=and&fulltext=high+fructose+corn+syrup+obesity&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT

Most of his articles are about food, nutrition, and sports. I could not find any information about him that may cause bias. His beliefs were unclear that could have contributed what he wrote about this topic. The article contains information about the rise in the amount of sweeteners Americans consume in a year and also talks about products it is used in. It also mentions a research that I have been researching the finding of to help support my point.

Howard, 2006, Sugar or Sweetener?, The Environmental Magazine Mar/Apr2006, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p40-41, 2p

http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp.mc.maricopa.edu/ehost/detail?vid=16&hid=18&sid=a606cefb-2637-4e6e-9a24-a95e299dd28e%40SRCSM2

As I read through Chapter 11 I found some useful information. The information in this chapter is information I have once learned but again it is nice to be refreshed on these topics. The new information I found helpful was the suggestion about using visuals and the addition of a picture, graphs, chart, or diagrams. I like the information giving to include a table number or a figure number as a reference point. I see them all the time in books but have never thought about formatting my papers or projects in this way.

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This weeks homework really help me define and understand plagiarism. I will use the checklist as a reference throughout the rest of this project and class. I will also use it for future projects to avoid any type of plagiarism. It was interesting on how it broke it down and made me aware to even be careful of unintentional plagiarism, which I don’t think many people achieve this awareness while writing. I think it is easy for one to unintentionally change words around to avoid it but yet still be committing it.

I really found the information pertaining to summarizing and paraphrasing very helpful. When I really look back on past projects and how I would have defined the two as being very similar or even the same now I understand the difference and will apply these practices to all future works when asked to do so.

The last thing I found helpful was taking detailed notes. It gave detailed instructions on how to achieve good notes that will create quick references for information I may find important to my research. I will use these strategies in the future to help keep my work organized and to make it easy to reference when needed.

I feel the writers are stating facts based on research they have performed.

The writers have included information that their conclusion from their research that supports their evidence.

Their evidence includes test results done on leptin and insulin. I feel it is very conviencing based on the information included

I have done research to investigate the information provided

I did not pick up on any bias my only concern is what they where trying to prove by doing the research and if that effected there overall results

Not pertinent information was left out to my knowledge

There is some balance but mostly the writer’s are just documenting their results.

No viewpoints to my knowledge have been left out

No visuals or charts included

The information provided was the result of research so I do not think valid resoning would apply.

In addition to the information already presented I noted that the article includes information in the rise of use between 1970 and 1997 per capita. It explains the lowered circulation of leptin and insulin after the consumption of fructose in comparison to other types of carbohydrates and how this can affects body weight.

Insulin and leptin are both hormones that are triggered after the consumption or foods or beverages containing carbohydrates such as sucrose, glucose, fructose. The release of these hormones varies with the consumption of fructose then other carbohydrates.

The question is “Is fructose the cause of weight gain and insulin resistance?”

This article includes information of the rise in consumption of HFCS between 1970 and 1997. The effect HFCS has on leptin and isulin secretion after the consumption of meals being less than that of natural sweeteners and what the possible out this has on our bodies.

Whom, what, where, and when

Sharon S Elliott, Nancy L Keim, Judith S Stern, Karen Teff and Peter J Havel

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, November 2002 

http://intl.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/76/5/911