The topic that I am going to be talking about in my Expository research is childhood obesity. Childhood obesity is a problem in the United States and continues to get worse every year. Obesity is caused by terrible health. Bad health can lead to heart disease, stroke, and many types of cancer. The three sources I am going to use are down below. Three of them are scholarly sources, and one of them is a verifiable source. The verifiable source comes with statistics from the International Study of Childhood Obesity.

“Obesity Is a Common, Serious, and Costly Disease.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 7 June 2021, www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html.

In this article by the CDC, they explain that childhood obesity is a severe problem for the United States. The report gives statistics of obesity in children throughout the United States. It also provides statistics of people with obesity through different races.

“Childhood Obesity – Symptoms and Causes.” Mayo Clinic, 5 Dec. 2020, www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/childhood-obesity/symptoms-causes/syc-20354827.

In this article, the Mayo Clinic gives an overview of obesity. This article provides information about obesity like the symptoms, the causes, and the risk factors. The ways to prevent obesity are also stated in the report.

“Childhood Obesity: Causes and Consequences.” PubMed Central (PMC), 8 Dec. 2015, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4408699.

This article explains that child obesity is a problem throughout the world. Childhood obesity is described as a person with excess body fat. A cause of childhood obesity is an imbalance of exercise and your food intake.

“International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE): Contributions to Understanding the Global Obesity Epidemic.” PubMed Central (PMC), 1 Apr. 2019, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521223.

This article by PubMed Central is an international study of childhood obesity. This article shows statistics of obesity through different countries of the world. A chart is provided about the diet of a healthy person and an unhealthy person who is obese.

I am going to ensure that I perfectly master the MLA format throughout my paper. I will use the MLA format checklist provided in iCollege to make sure that it is done to perfection. It’s going with the simple rules of keeping your lines double spaced and making sure the font is in Times New Roman 12pt. My work cited page will be on a separate page and put in alphabetically, and my in-text citations will be introduced and have a citation in parenthesis.

At first, when I heard about the 1,000-word length minimum, this sounded like many words. The 1,000-word limit is a lot, but it was not that bad once I started writing my paper. As I keep writing, the word count increases, and I have realized that 1,000 words are not that bad. A struggle that I have is whenever I talk about my sources, I tend to write only the specific details, and I realize that my points about the sources are too short. For this assignment, I will try to elaborate on my sources to make the 1,000-word limit. I tend to procrastinate on assignments, but for this one, I am going to try my best to finish this assignment early and use my extra days before the assignment is due to revise and edit. Whenever I procrastinate on assignments, I do them last minute, which creates terrible anxiety and causes me not to write to my best potential.