Annonated Bibliography Starter

"Targeting low-income communities." Stop Corporate Abuse. Corporate Accountability International, n.d. Web. 29 Feb 2012.



This article addresses low income communities and their inability to access foods with the nutritional value that their bodies need. Health food clubs and supermarkets have left the lower income communities and planted themselves in higher end communities. In place of the supermarkets, fast food corporations have moved in, knowing they will be many people's only choice. This is why inner cities house the unhealthiest people in America.


Anna, Gosline. "New Scientist Health." New Scientist. New Scientist, 12 Jun 2006. Web. 29 Feb 2012.
This article breaks down an experiment done at Wake Forest University. The experimenter split 51 monkeys into two groups and fed them diets containing the same number of calories, but 8% of one group's diet consisted of trans fats. The other group's diet had no trans fats. The group fed trans fats gained 7.2% of their body weight, whereas the other group only gained 1.2% of their body weight.

Sanchez-Villegas, Almudena, Toledo Estefania, et al. "Fast-food and commercial baked goods consumption and the risk of depression." Public Health Nutrition. 15.3 (2012): 424-432. Web. 29 Feb. 2012.
This published experiment examines the correlation between fast food (and processed pastries) and depression. No relationship between pastries and depression was found, but a little over 5% of participants reported cases of depression following the manipulated diet.