Writing a research paper for school (need ideas)

haaaleyx

Wasn't sure if this would go here, or in the chit chat board. But anyways for English class I already did a presentation on Healthy Eating Vs. Dieting and now we have to write a research paper on a topic of our choice. I wanted to something along the same lines but I'm having trouble thinking of ideas. Should I stem off what I did for my presentation or go in a different direction ? Any ideas would be helpful, thanks !

allshebe

Why not compare the effectiveness of lifestyle change to one or more "fad" diets or other weight loss programs? SHould be plenty of documentation - big problem will be sorting out fact from hype and mythology.

haaaleyx

Why not compare the effectiveness of lifestyle change to one or more "fad" diets or other weight loss programs? SHould be plenty of documentation - big problem will be sorting out fact from hype and mythology.

yes, that's basically what i touched upon in my oral presentation I gave, so I might just stem off that and go more into detail with areas. I'm also kind of playing around with maybe writing about eating disorders too. hmmm

kerriberry74

Eating disorders would be a great topic. Depending on how long the paper needs to be, you would have different areas to cover ie. explanation of the disorders and history- when was it first recognized (if you can find it- examples in history- think monks living on a slice of bread a day- was their devotion intertwined with what we view as being anorexic?), in the medical community, demographics, a bit of the psychology and info on their treatment and throw in some recovery statistics for good measure. You could get a decent paper out of these aspects.

LOL! Enough procrastinating, I need to get moving on my developmental psych. paper... Happy writing!