A more practical approach to solving the obesity problem in the United StatesHealthy food or processed food? People always face this food selection problem in daily life. Michael Pollan promotes the healthy food movement as a solution to addressing the obesity problem in his book The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. However, the author of the article “How Junk Food Can End Obesity”, David H. Freedman, has a different perspective in which he believes that reducing calories in processed foods to make them healthier should be the feasible approach to solving the problems of obesity in the United States. Freedman raises several objections to Pollan's argument. Most noticeably to me, Freedman points out that it is impossible to completely eat healthy food and eliminate the consumption of processed foods in daily life, which he uses to argue against the practicality of the intervention. He thinks government intervention, as mentioned by Pollan in his book, will not work. However, I think that government intervention, such as creating regulations or promoting public education, will have a positive effect on altering the United States' eating habits, thereby further reducing the obesity rate. From Dhruv Khullar's essay “Why Shame Won't Stop Obesity,” he describes the fact that over 75% of Americans are overweight or obese, and not even shame stops them from eating unhealthy food (128). Khullar proposes minimizing junk food advertising and establishing nutrition and health curricula in public schools (129). Minimizing junk food advertising will decrease the likelihood of people buying junk food, and public education could make people, especially children, aware of the long-term negative consequences of obesity. The role of government is particularly crucial to ensure that such proposals can be implemented and reduce food consumption