I began gathering information on childhood obesity through the online databases available through Ferris State University 's FLITE library. The first database I began searching under was Academic OneFiles. I searched using the keywords "childhood obesity" hoping to get an idea of what sort of articles were going to be available. This search rendered 7,166 different results. With so many articles to choose from, I decided to narrow my research to full text articles. This narrowing resulted in 1,192 journals that I was able to sift through. After seeing all the results for full text articles, I decided that it would be best to narrow my search again and see if I could find articles relating to more specific areas within my topic. I then began searching under the Health Sciences (Sage Full-Text) database since I knew that any
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