First Reading 

http://clinical.diabetesjournals.org/content/22/1/1.full

Website Title: Obesity in America: Its Getting Worse 
Article Title: Clinical Diabetes
Date Accessed: November 17, 2014

By Jennifer B. Marks, she received her medical degree, and completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Miami School of Medicine. A lot of her efforts have been towards Diabetes and the prevention of it.

Jennifer has a very successful history, she received her MD, also earned a BS in Nursing from the University of Southern Maine. She was also a past president of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) South Coastal Region and is immediate past Editor-in Chief of Clinical Diabetes, an ADA publication.
Currently Dr. Marks is working on many projects; she is an Investigator in the NIH-funded multi-center “Diabetes TrialNet” — a consortium of researchers investigating interventions for the prevention or delay of type 1 diabetes. She also currently serves as President of the Miami-Dade Board of Directors of the ADA. With all of that she still has time to, serve on the editorial boards of numerous diabetes-related journals, is a reviewer for several general medical journals. One last success Dr.Marks has is that she has been an invited to speak at a variety of national and international meetings on diabetes and obesity.

Second Reading

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/09/the-whys-of-rising-obesity/

Website Title: Harvardgazette. N.p., n.d. Web.Willett
Article Title: The Whys of Rising Obesity
Date Accessed: November 17, 2014

By Alvin Powell, he received his education at ALM, Harvard Extension School. Al Powell is senior science writer at the Harvard University Gazette, he writes about advances in science, medicine, and public health. Powell worked in daily journalism for more than a decade and also spent time as a freelance writer before going to Harvard. He is also an author and published a book in 2008.

Third Reading

http://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-conditions/healthy-living/obesity.html

Website Title: Stanford Health Care (SHC)
Article Title: Effects of Obesity
Date Accessed: November 16, 2014

By Stanford Health Care

Work Cited:
1. http://clinical.diabetesjournals.org/content/22/1/1.full
2. http://uhealthsystem.com/doctors/profile/1093
3. http://www.divinecaroline.com/self/wellness/why-has-obesity-rate-grown-america-over-last-fifty-years
4. http://stanfordhealthcarealliance.org/content/shca/en.html
5. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/09/the-whys-of-rising-obesity/
6. http://www.extension.harvard.edu/about-us/faculty-directory/al-powell