In a society that values positive change it seems that only the waist sizes of Americans’ change these days. The front pages of national magazines are littered with photos of celebrities and the latest scale reading plastered across their body. Jennifer Love Hewitt felt the wrath of the media’s obsession with weight and appearance as her photo was the source of many talk shows for days. The argument made does not stop here as people use the emotions of these celebrities in the pictures to help them label every person with a similar weight to be unhappy.
The argument that America is an obese nation is one of causality as we believe the weight problem causes more than just a change in clothing size but also for those who are overweight to be unhappy. I have never heard of someone being completely unhappy for being overfed, however, I’ve heard my teenage brother loose it after going 2 hours without a meal. This argument is one that uses one cause to create many effects. The idea that an increase in weight will lead to an increase in unhappiness is flawed and would be declared as a false causality.
Weight may be an issue in America but until there is a scientific relationship between weight and happiness or any other emotion towards oneself, it will never be considered a valid, complete argument. America may be overweight but it doesn’t mean that they can’t be “phat”.
