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Eli Tian Kristen Foster CO150.401 20 October, 2013 Should the Government Tell Us What Size Beverage to Drink? An Annotated Bibliography Smoking may cause damage to other peoples respiration systems, so theres smoking bans in public areas. Drinking may cause violence and car accidents, so theres a 21-year old limit on buying alcohol. However, I think drinking soda beverages doesnt affect others. Thereby, when I noticed that a limit on soda drinks was to take place in New York City, I became interested in this issue. For a thorough understanding, I set out to find the reason for the New York City soda ban. I posed several related questions for this research: (1) What chemical compounds does soda drink contain? (2) How does drinking soda beverages affect peoples health? (3) Do people from any other areas care about this issue? (4) How much soda drink does the American consume compared with other countries people? (5) How do some stakeholders (like restaurants and soda beverages sellers) respond to it? By answering these questions, I could evaluate the reasonability of this legislation. I conducted this research from 10-20 October 2013. The Bibliography contains 2 kinds of 4 different sources. Two articles come from peer-reviewed journals, one from magazines and the other one comes from an encyclopedia. They are all published this year. They gave me answers to all my questions.

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Basu, Sanjay, Martin McKee, Gauden Galea, and David Stuckler. Relationship of Soft Drink Consumption to Global Overweight, Obesity, and Diabetes: A Cross-National Analysis of 75 Countries. American Journal of Public Health. 103.11 (2013): 2071-77. Web. 12 Oct. 2013. This article is mainly focus on the relationship between soft drink consumption and obesity for scholars to review. The writers use analysis and statistics as their evidence. The article uses diagrams and graphs to show how soft drink consumption is related to obesity percentage in 75 countries. Also, it uses two graphs to show the measure of consumption varies over time and personal income. The supporting points for their research are statistics and scientific truths from databases like Euromonitor Global Market Information Database, the World Health Organization, and the International Diabetes Federation.

This article is reliable because the four authors are from either world famous universities or research institutes (UC Berkeley & Cambridge University etc.), and it is published by American Public Health Association, which is a peer-reviewed journal. One of the main problem is that the authors use a linear function. That involves in statistical error.

Overall, this article answers the 2nd, 3rd and 4th questions I posed. The answers are drinking many soda beverages will result in obesity, people from other countries consume less soda beverages than American, and most of them dont care about this issue. Carbonated beverage Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. 2013. Web. 18 Oct. 2013.

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This Reference Entry is written for people who want to know what carbonated beverage is. It contains two parts: (1) the chemical compounds that carbonated beverage contains (2) the history of carbonated beverages. It uses scientific and historical trues as evidence.

Since this source is from Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, which is published by Columbia University Press on Sep 2013, so its very credible. However, it only states what compounds the carbonated beverage contains, not the effects of those compounds on human bodies.

From this source, I got the answer of my 1st question that carbonated beverage contains many acidic compounds. I also learned how carbonated beverages were created and became famous. Thats related to some stakeholders like beverage companies, restaurants and the consumers. Mark, DeBoer, Scharf, Rebecca, and Demmer, Ryan. Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Weight Gain in 2-to 5-Year-Old Children Pediatrics. 132.3 (2013): 413-20. Academic Search Premier. Web. 15 Oct. 2013. The article is based on question about how sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) affect body mass index (BMI) Z score (a statistic method) among children aged 2-5. Its for physicians and health care professionals in the field of pediatrics to review. The main evidence they use is analysis and statistics. The writers uses data set and data analysis as supporting points to find the result. Finally they make some tables to show the result. The article shows children among aged 2-5 who have regular SSB consumption are more likely to be obese compared with infrequent or nondrinkers.

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The publisher of this article is highly academic, which is Pediatrics (a peer reviewed journal), and the articles release month is Sep2013, which shows its recently published. However, the 96000 children, which are the articles research objectives, have different fathers with different BMI, which are not considered into the analysis.

Overall it answers my 2nd question by stating excess beverage consuming results in obesity. Moreover it shows me how SSB influences childrens health, which is very important for their parents. So their parents, although not consuming SSB directly, are a group of stakeholders. What they think on this issue will influence whether the legislation would be carried out or not. Zmuda, Natalie. NYC Soda Ban Starts This Week Advertising Age. Crain Communications Inc. 84.10 (2013): 13-13. Web. 13 Oct. 2013. This article written for readers who care about the NYC soda bans to know how restaurants react to the legislation. The evidence it uses mainly are interviews with spokesmen of big restaurants. The article tells me some restaurants are proactive while some others are taking a wait-and-see approach. It also gives an example of how Starbucks spokesman reacts to the ban. Indeed, Starbuck is conducting a wait-and-see strategy. The supporting points it uses are true interview records and surveys of some big restaurants and soft beverage seller. Its published by Advertising Age and the writer is Natalie Zmuda who is responsible for identifying and analyzing the latest trends impacting chief marketers (Natalie Zmuda).

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Those make this article credible. One problem is that this article doesnt show where its source comes from and when they conducted the interview and survey.

This source answers the 5th question I posed, which is how some stakeholders like restaurants and soda beverages sells respond to the legislation. It tells me some restaurants really care about this ban and they use a wait-and-see way to react to it. I also learned most stakeholders have a negative view towards this legislation.

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Work Cited Natalie Zmuda Advertising Age, Advertising Agency & Marketing Industry. Advertising Age, Advertising Agency & Marketing Industry. Web. 13 Oct, 2013. Basu, Sanjay, Martin McKee, Gauden Galea, and David Stuckler. Relationship of Soft Drink Consumption to Global Overweight, Obesity, and Diabetes: A Cross-National Analysis of 75 Countries. American Journal of Public Health. 103.11 (2013): 2071-77. Web. 12 Oct. 2013. Carbonated beverage Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. 2013. Web. 18 Oct. 2013. Mark, DeBoer, Scharf, Rebecca, and Demmer, Ryan. Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Weight Gain in 2-to 5-Year-Old Children Pediatrics. 132.3 (2013): 413-20. Academic Search Premier. Web. 15 Oct. 2013. Zmuda, Natalie. NYC Soda Ban Starts This Week Advertising Age. Crain Communications Inc. 84.10 (2013): 13-13. Web. 13 Oct. 2013.