Ades, Phillip A. Potential Benefits of Weight Loss in Coronary Heart Disease.

Progress in

Cardiovascular Diseases, W.B. Saunders, 9 Oct. 2013,

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003306201300162X.

This article talked about obesity and the connection it has with coronary heart disease. It

talks about what exactly about obesity causes heart disease. It also talks about what measures

people can take to avoid heart disease.

The purpose of this paper was to inform, not to persuade. There was no argumentative

aspect of this paper, it just told the reader about the dangers of obesity and heart disease. It

stayed unbiased throughout the article. The article was short, but it was concise. It was relatively

easy to read and got right to the point. It would be nice if it contained a little bit more

information and expanded on certain points. For instance when the article talked about exercise

and weight loss improving physical function and quality of life. The article did a good job of

explaining and going into detail on what exact physical functions would improve, but it couldve

explained more about what specific exercises that would lead to the specific advantages that

come with weight loss and exercise. Like would the exercise need to be more cardio based, or

would any type of exercise, like weight lifting, be advantageous to?

This article supports my inquiry paper by helping to explain how weight loss can

positively influence your health. It does a good job of explaining the effect of weight loss on

your body as it relates to heart disease and the preventative measures it has. Like when it

explains the effect insulin resistance has. It sets the article up to be able to explain how weight

loss creates insulin sensitivity.

 Allen, Suzanne. Does Losing Weight Lower Your Immune System? LIVESTRONG.COM,

Leaf Group, 14 Aug. 2017, www.livestrong.com/article/479646-does-losing-weight-lower-your-

immune-system/.

This article was about the effect that losing weight and exercise has on your immune

system. It mostly talks about the effect and how the amount of exercise can influence your

immune system. It compares the effect of moderate exercise, extreme exercise, moderate caloric

restriction, and obesity on your immune system. Based on the article, moderate weight loss has

the best positive impact on your immune system.

The purpose of this paper was to inform people on the best way to build your immune

system. This article does a good job of expanding on the positive and negative effects of each

segment (moderate exercise, moderate caloric restriction, extreme exercise, and obesity). For

instance the article explains that moderate caloric restriction can boost your immune system, but

leaves you more vulnerable to the flu. However the article could have done a better job of

explaining more in depth on how restricting calories improves your immune system. This article

also would have benefitted from using a study to show more precisely the effects of each

category. The way the author set up this article worked really well. There was the introduction,

then the first category was introduced, then the second and so on. Each paragraph did a good job

of introducing its topic and explaining the benefits (if there were any) and the negatives (if there

were any). It does a good job of explaining why extreme exercise is not the best way to improve

your immune system. Which is due to overtraining. However this article would have benefitted

from having a good conclusion paragraph to sum up everything that was said in the article and

highlight which category worked the best for your immune system.
 Nakade, Makiko, et al. What Behaviors Are Important for Successful Weight

Maintenance?Journal of Obesity, Hindawi, 22 Feb. 2012,

www.hindawi.com/journals/jobe/2012/202037/.

This article starts with statistics on obesity. It talks about how widespread its becoming,

and the dangers of it. It also talks about the benefits of losing weight and the benefits of

sustaining that weight loss, or at least a percentage of it (between 5 and 10 percent). The article

then goes on to explain the study that was conducted, and the reason they were conducting it.

The purpose of this article, and the study was to look at behavioral factors related to

successful weight maintenance. This article does a good job of building around the study, which

was the main purpose of the article. For the study, the people who conducted it went to an

obesity program called the Saku Control Obesity Program. They then chose people to follow for

a year after they filled out questionnaires about their eating habits and diet, stress, and other

everyday obstacles. After a year the researchers were able to look at the people that successfully

maintained their weight and look at the behavior that they exhibited over the past year. The

article does a good job of creating a study that would answer the questions that they had about

properly sustaining weight loss. THe study does a good job of making sure there is no

confounding variables by giving everyone questionnaires about their habits before the study.

Although people could have lied about their habits, it is something thats necessary for the study.

Paez, Christina J. Exercise vs. Diet in Weight Loss. The University of New Mexico Search

Engine, The University of New Mexico, 4 Nov. 2000,

www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/exandwtloss.html.
 This article questioned whether diet, or exercise was more important to weight loss. It

started off by talking about the dangers of obesity and why a good diet and exercise are

important. It then got into actually showing which is more important between diet and exercise.

To prove which was better, the article showed data and statistics from a study they did with

involving a groups of men and women. One was a group that followed a calorie deficit diet and

didnt work out, while the other was a group that worked out and didnt follow a diet.

This article didnt use a lot of persuasion. The purpose wasnt to persuade, it was to

inform. The article stayed unbiased throughout the article and maintained the same scholarly

tone throughout. This article heavily revolved around stats and facts. Most of it was based on the

study that they did and their conclusion was based almost entirely on facts. The paragraphs start

by stating the facts and data that they found and then explaining what the data means.

Something that kind of bothered me about the paper was the confounding variables.

While the fact that there was a study that helped prove which was more important between

exercise and diet, it didnt take into account outside variables that could have impacted the study.

For instance it didnt take into account individuals normal diet. What if someone in the exercise

only group already had a healthy diet to? That could impact how much weight they lose.

Although in another case it did acknowledge a possible confounding variable which was that the

diet study expended more energy. This means that

Soeliman, Fatemeh Azizi, and Leila Azadbakht. Weight Loss Maintenance: A Review on

Dietary Related Strategies. Journal of Research in Medical Sciences : The Official Journal of
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd, 1 Mar. 2014,

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4061651/.

This article talked about long term weight maintenance. It started off with background

information on people who lose weight. It gave statistics on obesity and how its the 5th cause of

death in the world. It also gave the number of overweight and obese people in the world. The

article then gave stats on how many people regain all of the weight they lost. It also went on to

give stats on what percentage of the weight you lost you were likely to keep off and what was

considered a success. The rest of the article discussed different types of diets and ways to keep

the weight off successfully.

The purpose of this article was to inform people on how to try to keep weight off after

you lose it. The article does a good job of going in depth with the individual methods of

maintaining weight loss. For example with meal replacement, the article gave the benefits (safe,

efficient, cost effective, and a low drop out rate). It also explained what exactly a meal

replacement is. Which is when you replace regular meals with low calorie, low fat meals that are

nutrient dense. It can be liquified or regular solid food. I also like how all of the articles claims

on effective ways to manage weight loss are backed up by either graphs, studies, or statistics.

Like the study mentioned in the section about different micronutrient compositions. It helps to

legitimise the claims that the article is making.

The study does a good job of thoroughly administering their questionnaires and with the

use of past scores and a special calculation, the researchers were able to compare the
questionnaires to peoples scores in the past to assess the level of health of the eating habits of

the people being studied.