Jane Doe
Professor Martin
English 1301.S33
5 March 2005

DIET MODERATION Annotated Bibliography

Source # 1

A. CITATION
 
Yale-Newhaven hospital. “Heart Association warns against high-protein diets.” 21 

Nov. 2001 

< http://www.ynhh.org/healthlink/cardiac/cardiac_11_01.html>.

B. SUMMARY

1) What is the main argument of the resource?
The main argument of this resource is that The American Heart Association has issued strong recommendation against the high-protein diets since these could be the cause of severe health problems.
2) How does author support her position?
The author uses actual remarks of the chairman of the AHA committee, “Atkins and Protein Power are the ones we're most concerned with. You can get up to 60 percent of daily calories from fat. It's really high.” The author uses the comparisons made by AHA with other diet that shows the negative impact of this protein rich diet to support the claim.

3) What are the details that support the argument?
The author  gives detailed analysis of how carbohydrate are essential for the health and their reduction from the normal diet could lead to gout, diabetes, heart attack, osteoporosis, kidney dysfunction  and even cancer in some cases.

C. EVALUATION
Yale-Newhaven hospital usually ranks amongst the best hospitals that provides various online resources to post daily health news and updates, research illnesses and medications and articles about variety of selected health topics. Yale-New Haven He@lthLINK is an online publication highlighting breaking medical news in the areas of cancer, cardiac, mental health, pediatrics and women's health with insights by Yale-New Haven experts. Since this article is from such a reliable health oriented source, it automatically assures the reader of its credibility. It gives me the first hand information from a major health institution and reinforces the concerns that I always had about the serious impacts of this diet on the health. It clearly shows that carbohydrates are the main source of energy in the body and the lower levels of insulin can lead to serious damages of the organs.

Source # 2

A. CITATION

 American Heart Association. “Goals of the American Heart Association Eating 

Plan.” 5 Mar. 2005 

<http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=9203>.

B. SUMMARY

1) What is the main argument of the resource?
The main argument of this resource is that it lists the dietary guidelines that the individuals should apply in the overall eating pattern which will not only improve the health but also reduces the risk for other health illnesses. The link also provides the list of number of servings per day from each food group, serving sizes and suggested food choices. 
2) How does author support his/her position?
This web site is actual web site of AHA and after lot of research and testing posts these guidelines and health related articles for public knowledge. In this particular posting they have emphasized on the importance of all the food groups and have listed the actual guidelines and the lists of foods that one should adapt for healthier life style.
3) What are the details that support the argument?
The actual number of nutrients and minerals and the guidelines to follow as suggested by AHA can help the individual realize what is wrong in the diet that he is taking and how can he improve it.   

C. EVALUATION

No one could care more about the health of the heart than the ultimate source of American Health Association. I decided to use this link as one of my sources of help because undoubtedly, the information given by AHA would be most reliable, accurate and detailed. This particular posting has helped me to bring to the people’s knowledge the importance of all the food groups and make them aware of the actual servings required and the excess they may consume through some diet plans. The actual listing of the guidelines and the suggested serving size of various food groups is a very effective method of proving the point to the reader.

Source # 3

A. CITATION

 Stein, Joel. “The Low-Carb Diet Craze.” 1 Nov. 1999. 24 Feb. 2005

<http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/html>.

B. SUMMARY

1) What is the main argument of the resource?
The main argument of this source is that no diet is good enough to permanently keep the weight off. It is not worth to risk the health for these diet plans that are just gimmicks and source of making money.
2) How does author support his/her position?
The author has supported his claim by giving personal experiences of different people who have been on various diets and then have come off them either after getting bored of eating same kind of food or hoping that they will be able to keep the weight off in the future.
3) What are the details that support the argument?
	To support his claim, the author Joel Stein has given lots of examples of the tempting books and diet plans available in the market that guarantee people of losing weight once they follow their lifestyle. He has interestingly quoted how the criticism of one kind of diet gives birth to a newer version.

C. EVALUATION
The article gives interesting quotes of personal experiences of different people as to how they liked one diet over another and why some came off certain diets after getting bored of eating same food. Stein has very effectively used public appeal to create awakening about the subject amongst the people through the direct quotes and experiences of others. The author has critically targeted the diet industry which is taking the advantage of the weight losing craze of innocent people and keeps supplying these gimmicks in the form of new diet plans and books based on them in the market. I have used this article as one of my sources because through the personal experiences of some people, I want to discourage others from following these diet plans as none of them really help in keeping the weight off in the long run. So why risk the health for such a short term satisfaction. Also this article, further emphasizes the claim made in the previous two articles that by following a moderate diet and exercising, one can attain the double satisfaction of losing weight and staying healthy.