Preliminary Research

    Thus far, I have been conducting research regarding food packing images and the way that these images influence Americans to overeat, contributing to the nation's obesity.  I have yet to be able to find direct research on the topic, but I have found several topics with directly relate to the topic.  My annotated bibliographies to date relate to the Visual Analysis chapter in Lester's book, as well as an article about furthering nutrition label sanctions and another about misleading photography of food.  I have yet to feel like there is a lack of resources or research, and I intend to look deeper into food photography and also mascots used to represent food.

    I did look for a book about the correlation between human appetite and vision, but the psychology book that I checked out did not present relevant material.  I will continue to search for an article or journal regarding this subject matter.