Substantive Magazine

From the list of Substantive Magazines that were listed, I chose the February 2011 edition of Scientific American.  Within the magazine, I found an article entitled “How to Fix the Obesity Crisis” written by David H. Freedman.  The article discusses the problems associated with obesity; why it is difficult for people to lose weight, the financial and social costs, and what are we going to do as a nation to combat this problem.  Obesity has many contributing factors including environmental, biological, the cost of healthy verses unhealthy food, and the advertising ploys.  There are several weight loss programs such as Weight Watchers that are effective and are linked to the idea of behavioral modification.  Recently there has been a push by the U.S. Surgeon General’s office, the CDC, and Michelle Obama to be more involved in fighting the obesity problem.  There are several ideas being discussed and we will see some major plan for fixing the obesity crisis.