I am interested in this topic because when I was in high school I was diagnosed with a disease called Scurvy. I have always been fascinated about learning what it truly means to eat healthy and about the effects a poor diet and lack of nutrients has on ones body. This research question affects my values and myself because I am able to make a personal connection with eating improperly and not getting the suffice amount of nutrients my body needs. I am qualified to write about this because I went through a six-month stage involving hospital visits, blood tests, and "experiments" to determine what was internally wrong with my body. When I was diagnosed with Scurvy I was given an abundance of information and research thus enabling me to personally learn more on this topic. In addition I was also given information regarding how to control and regulate a healthy diet. When given a large amount of information about Scurvy I was able to realize how rare a case of Scurvy walks through doctors' office doors. Not very many people know about Scurvy, and doctors do not even think to diagnose a patient with the disease because it sits in their examination room once every few years. Scurvy is caused by the lack of vitamin C, when you do not have enough vitamin C in your body your body begins to weaken with a very weak immune system, your bones begin to be bridal, and your body begins to get spots all over it. Although, Scurvy is one example of what happens when you have a poor diet, there are many other outcomes that occur when you have a bad diet; for example, obesity, anemia, diabetes, and high blood pressure. When you do not keep your body healthy it begins to break down leaving people with problems they do not know how to fix from the start.  I find this to be an extremely interesting topic and I look forward to continuing my research as well as educating others on it. 

In the first article I read titled, "The Ethical Basis for Promoting Nutritional Health in Public Schools in the United States", the purpose of this article is to present a bioethics framework for justifying stricter regulation of school food and to determine whether this type of health promotion in schools is ethically justified. Bioethics is the ethics of medical and biological research; this means that it is a shared, reflective examination of ethical issues in health care, health science, and health policy. The article discusses the history of  "The National School Lunch Program", which was established in 1946, however Patricia Crawford, the author of this article, also explained the difficulty of trying to get everyone on the right side. A big role brought up in the article is about childhood obesity in schools and the unhealthy meals served to the kids. Another big part of this article is about the different steps that need to be taken in order to change the framework in school nutrition. The major values in this article are primarily directed towards the children and trying to keep them healthy. However, the problem is not just with the children it is a much wider problem. The parents of children in the public school system need to know what is going in their children's bodies during school, however, they also need to be aware as to what they are feeding their children when they are home. The afternoon "snacks" parents buy at the stores are not always the best type of food to put in a growing child's body. Instead of eating a pack of gushers after school, why not feed them an apple and peanut butter? When incorporating education on healthy nutrition in the school system, information that students learn in the classroom need to be sent home for parents to read and learn from as well.  As more people try to change the nutrition in the school systems it allows children to become more educated on which foods are good and bad for them, exposes them to healthier lifestyles, and lessens children's chances of becoming obese. The one problem people may have with educating students through public school is that it cost money. The money would be gathered through peoples tax dollars. However, to convince tax-payers that implementing education towards healthy nutrition in public schools is necessary by showing tax-payers the effects that unhealthy diets and the food that cause it. Bad diets are a big problem in the United States and changing it in schools will bring more people to realize that the healthy foods are what your body needs to stay healthy and happy. This article is credible because three different doctors collectively wrote it. The main author Patricia B. Crawford graduated from The University of California from The School of Public Health. She is familiar with her own personal research towards this topic and has also researched alongside the other two authors. The bias in this article is not as strong as I thought it would be. Crawford did a good job keeping her own opinion strictly based on facts and not by personal experience towards the subject. 

The second article I read was called "What is a healthy balanced diet?" The central claim in this article was what the proper amounts of each food group were necessary when eating for a healthy diet. The evidence it proposed was multiple examples of the foods you should eat falling under every food group. For example your protein group should include meats such as chicken, steak, pork, and even peanuts/peanut butter. They also provided a list just as above for each food group. This is helpful for people to understand the necessary nutrients your body needs and aids your understanding of where these nutrients come from.  The issue is when you do not eat healthy you can get sick with a very weak immune system and also deal with obesity. This is an informative article with no personal bias from the author as well as a high credibility because it's a very well known and a reliable source. The Mayo Clinic is a website made up of articles that doctors from all around add their own knowledge on the subject. 

In the third article I looked for one based on what Scurvy is and how you get it. I decided to research an article based on Scurvy because it is necessary to learn about Scurvy since it is a part of my research question. Scurvy is going to be one example I will use to prove my argument towards uncommon diseases. However, there are many more examples that I am able to use to show the readers that there are problems that occur when you do not eat healthy. For example, Anemia is a disease that is caused by unhealthy diets and is a lack of red blood cells in your body. Beriberi is a disease that comes from a lack of thiamine (one of the B vitamins) this is another example I am able to use as an example as to what you can get when you are not consuming what your body needs. So, without proper dietary education and consumption, small, seemingly insignificant elements of that diet could actually lead to a variety of health issues, as is the case with vitamin C deficiency and scurvy.   In the article, "What is Scurvy? What causes Scurvy?" it gave a short summary describing the history of scurvy. Scurvy is an ancient disease that pirates used to get in the 1800s. This disease is also a vitamin C deficiency that causes you to get spots all over your body. The major values at stake for the article are giving the accurate information on a disease. The interests at stake are for people who may not have the best eating habits and are trying to figure out if they have the disease by discovering the symptoms and then also learning what to do to fix them. With this article there is no bias because it is an informative article as well. With this the author stated the facts known about the disease: symptoms, history, and treatment. However, because it is an informative article the bias does not exist. 

The research question I came up with is arguable because people have different opinions on the subject of what is right and wrong to eat in order to maintain a healthy diet. However, it is not just whether or not people agree on what is right or wrong because people know that eating ice cream every night rather than a bowl of fruit is not what your body needs. The real issue is whether or not tax dollars will be used to promote food education or is that responsibility of food producers and consumers. Bad diets lead to bad things, and in order to address this we need some form of education on healthy diets as well as encouraging, or making it easier, to choose healthier options. Although I expanded my knowledge of information about this topic through these articles I will revise my research topic by making it broader and allowing myself to branch out more by acknowledging what a healthy diet with good nutrition includes. I will also research and learn more about what happens when you have a bad diet and how it can lead to obesity as well as other diseases. I am also thinking about mentioning what types of foods are bad i.e. how McDonalds versus a salad from whole foods differs. 

