Create a 2 page essay paper that discusses Teenage Obesity: Researching the Topic.Download file to see previous pages... The remaining articles were outdated. I revised the search using the keywords '

Create a 2 page essay paper that discusses Teenage Obesity: Researching the Topic.

The remaining articles were outdated. I revised the search using the keywords 'overweight adolescent' and located 179 articles. After reviewing several articles and reading the abstracts, I found a peer reviewed journal article that related teenage obesity to sleep disorders. It was a current article, relevant, and published in a well respected journal.

The article documented a study of teenagers aged 10-16.9 years and recorded their sleep habits. The aim of the study was to establish a relationship between obesity and sleep disorders. As a secondary aim, it sought to explore the degree that these disorders contributed to poor academic performance and depressive moods in overweight teenagers. The study found that teenagers that were overweight averaged shorter sleep time, a later sleep onset, and more disrupted sleep. They further reported that this was consistent with parental concerns of the overweight participant's daytime sleepiness, sleepwalking, bedtime resistance, and dissatisfaction with the adolescent's sleep duration. The study further suggested that lack of sleep might contribute to their excessive weight gain. The study reported that "sleep deprivation may cause dietary cravings and hormonal and metabolic shifts that foster weight gain" (Beebe et al. 2007). The study further found that the sleeping disorders impeded attention, reduced impulse control, and complicated the problem solving process.