This article highlights the individualistic perspective on health and obesity in America. It explains that despite substantial evidence that obesity is largely due to external factors, Americans still choose to look at individual level factors to blame. The article focuses on the data collection method of surveys to yield results that America’s society, and even some doctors, put the blame on personal factors such as lack of willpower and laziness. However, lead researcher, Jennifer Benz attributes the causes of obesity on a more sociological perspective between the environment and outside influences. I think this article is a good representation on how Americans treat obesity as a personal problem, when they should be treating obesity as
