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Celena Artis-Hampton
Professor Deby Jizi
UWRIT 1102
28 March 2016
Annotated Bibliography
In the past 10 years people have been trying to push toward increasing the physical
health in the United states, especially since more adults and adolescents are becoming obese and
sedentary. (Gieck, 29) This article focuses on fixing that problem by incorporating a holistic
lifestyle in a particular group of people, which is college students. They use Hettlers model of
holistic wellness which includes six broad dimensions: physical wellness, emotional wellness,
spiritual wellness, social wellness, occupational wellness, and intellectual wellness. (Gieck, 29)
They included all types of people in college that was over 18 years old and the results came out
as predicted. The purpose of this article was to display how holistic wellness affects people lives
and doing an experiment on people displayed that.
After reading this article, it proved to me that living a holistic lifestyle is worth trying out,
especially when you are very sedentary. This article gives a good perspective to my inquiry topic
which is explaining more on what a holistic lifestyle is and what it consists of. I wasnt surprised
about the results of this experiment they did because when stop being sedentary you
automatically feel better about your life. When you become more active and get more knowledge
about nutrition, you have a different outlook on things. The results display that people actually
stuck with exercising regularly and having good nutrition after the program worked. This just

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displays to me on how living a holistic lifestyle is so beneficial to people in so many different

ways.
Knowing this was an experiment on college makes it a credible source because they put
so much detail on what they did and it could easily be proven. At the very end of the of this
article they list a lot of references, which makes it credible because you can look up those
references to make sure what they are saying makes sense. Observing where it came from, which
was a journal, also displays the strong credibility in this article. All these aspects make this
source very credible, which is a reason why I chose it. It will make a great source for my inquiry
project with all the juicy detail and strong credibility.
For my second source the book is set up in different sections so I chose about four
sections to focus on which are exercise and will power, does exercise really help you lose weight,
juicing and detox miracles, and sunshine not supplements. Starting off with the first 2 sections
which discuss exercise and the sedentary of people. Some studies have said that sitting down
watching television increase the risk of heart disease and diabetes, regardless of how much we
exercise. (Spector, p.32) The purpose of all these sections is to prove the stuff we believe in
wrong. This will connect to the subject of my inquiry project.
Although this book doesnt talk about holistic wellness it relates to it very much by
talking about going more of the natural way to lose weight and become a better person. In one of
the sections it talks about how vitamins do not really do as much as the natural way does. The
example they used was vitamin D. A study they did revealed that taking vitamin D supplements
showed no evidence that it reduces death or fracture. (Spector, 230) This example displays the

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perspective it gives to my inquiry project. The credibility of this source will also be good for my
inquiry project.
I know this source is credible because its an actual book which had to go through a lot of
peer reviews to get published. Also at the end of the book it includes references for each chapter
which gives me the power to research what he is saying in his book. the author makes this book
a credible source because he is a professor and he is a physician at Guys and St. Thomas
Hospital. This background information displays that he has experience working with people and
he is open to opportunities to do research on the things he talks about in his books. These two
aspects make this source a very credible and good to use for my inquiry project.
My third source is kind of set up like my last source but there is less sections. I chose two
sections to include for my inquiry project, which was reasons for overweight and shopping for
food. You know how people blame their glands for weighing a lot, well the truth is, is that most
people who are overweight have no gland problems. (Brownell, 19-20) Well I guess over weight
people can stop making up excuses and lose weight if they want to. After talking about why
people are overweight, shopping for food is the next key thing. They explain that when shopping
for food it is better to buy goods that require some type of preparation because some many foods
are processed these days and that brings on more calories in your diet. (Brownell, p. 83-84) the
purpose of this source is to tell us bluntly about weight control which includes dieting. This
connects to my inquiry project also.
This book really opened my eyes to why people are overweight and it displays how lazy
people have become and making excuses for themselves. This connects to my subject of holistic
wellness because it displays why people should be more apt to losing weight and having better

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nutrition. When they talk about how to go grocery shopping, it includes what I am looking for
which is to shop more clean and natural. Most people today grocery shop and buy so much
processed food. It feels people bodies up with so much bad stuff which causes many diseases and
problems in their future. This displays how this book is relevant to my inquiry project and it is
also a credible source.
My third source is credible because the first page of this book includes a lot of
information on where it comes from and it includes how the author is from Yale University. The
publishing company which is the American health publishing company also makes it more
credible because its easy to research and prove. Some more information about the author is that
he is well known internationally and has his PHD which makes him very credible since a lot of
people know who he is. The strong background of the author makes this book a great credible
source for my inquiry project.
My fourth source is quite different from the previous ones because it is a twenty-fiveminute-long video about achieving a healthy lifestyle. They talk about unhealthy lifestyles which
includes smoking and drinking. Smoking and drinking causes major diseases like cancer and
heart problems. It explains what a healthy lifestyle is which includes the same aspects as living a
holistic lifestyle. Of course it includes having a healthy diet because that ties into maintaining a
healthy weight and dont forget about portion control. The purpose of this video was to explain
how to achieve a healthy lifestyle the right way, which connects to the subject of my inquiry
project.
This video was very informational about the risks of living an unhealthy lifestyle which
made living a healthy lifestyle look even better to live. I like how they acted out how living an

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unhealthy lifestyle affects the people around and people notice how different you act. The
relevance is very close to my inquiry project because it explains very broadly what a healthy
lifestyle is which is holistic wellness. The lady gave plenty of examples of the healthy lifestyle
which will help me out when I do my inquiry subject. Since this is an educational video I know
this information is very credible.
This was the first video I saw that was credible because it is for educational purposes and
because of the way it was produced. The producer is video education America which is a very
reliable source because when you research it many positive, credible things come up. also at the
end of the video it includes credits which gives me the opportunity to do more research on the
people in the movie and on the producers. The strong background on the production makes this
video a great credible source for my inquiry project.
My final source is from a website and it includes ways to live a more holistic lifestyle.
Holistic is defined as the wellness of all of the interconnected parts and aspects working towards
the health of our entire selves. (Renter) She includes four ways to improve your way of living a
holistic lifestyle. This includes practice mindfulness, respecting your body, eating clean foods
and focusing on positive relationships. These four aspects conclude the whole point of living a
holistic lifestyle. The purpose of this article was to share her opinion on what holistic means and
what it consists of.
I really enjoyed reading this article because I like how she defined the word holistic and I
liked how she explained four aspects to live more holistically. Although figuring out how to live
more holistically takes way more than 4 ways, she still compressed it pretty well into four bullet
points. The first bullet point I didnt get at first until I had to read it again. It was basically saying

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to not worry about what happened in the past and focus on the here and now. (Renter) This
article is obviously relevant to my inquiry project because it explains directly about what living a
holistic lifestyle is really about.
Although I do not know much about the author of this article, I believe it is a pretty good
credible source. When I click on her name she seems to have a lot of article she has written so I
believe that makes her more of a credible source. Something else that makes this source credible
is the main name of the website because it has so much more to it than her article. A lot of
articles are posted on this mainstream which is natural society, so it has to be a credible source.
Since the author has so many more articles, this is a very good source for my inquiry project and
it will bring more definition to the word holistic throughout my inquiry.

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Works Cited
Achieve a Healthy Lifestyle. Perf. Stephanie Capiron and Jerome Velinsky. Films on
Demand. Video Education America, 13 Aug. 2010. Web. 1 Apr. 2016.
<http://fod.infobase.com.librarylink.uncc.edu/p_ViewVideo.aspx?xtid=41130>.
Brownell, Kelly D. LEARN Program for Weight Control. Dallas: American Health,
1989,1990,1991. Print.
Gieck, DJ, and S Olsen. "Holistic Wellness as a Means to Developing a Lifestyle
Approach to Health Behavior Among College Students." Journal of American College Health : J
of Ach. 56.1 (2007). Print.
Renter, Elizabeth. "4 Ways to Live More Holistically Today." Natural Society. 25 June
2014. Web. 1 Apr. 2016. <http://naturalsociety.com/4-ways-live-holistically-today/>.
Spector, Tim. The Diet Myth. New York: Overlook, 2015. Print.

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