ARGUMENT201 新鲜的JJ题， 猛砸吧，就要考试了！

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201The citizens of Forsythe have adopted healthier lifestyles. Their responses to a recent survey show that in their eating habits they conform more closely to government nutritional recommendations than they did ten years ago. Furthermore, there has been a fourfold increase in sales of food products containing kiran, a substance that a scientific study has shown reduces cholesterol. This trend is also evident in reduced sales of sulia, a food that few of the healthiest citizens regularly eat.

The author claims that the citizens of Forsythe have adopted healthier life styles. To begin with, the arguer provides that the citizens of Forsythe have responded that their eating habits were more closely to government nutritional recommendations than ten years ago. In addition, the author reasons that the increasing in sales of food products containing kiran and the decreasing in sales of sulia could suggest the citizens of Forsythe have adopted healthier life styles. Though the statement is well-presented, further reflection reveals it suffers from several flaws.

On the one hand, except the food those citizens eating, there still are other factors having significant effects in healthier habits. Such as good hygiene habits, often doing exercises, good sleeping habit, no smoking, no drinking etc. If the citizens only eat healthy food, but still smoking or drinking, it is suspicious for us to believe that they have had healthier life styles.

Furthermore, the arguer only gives us vague information about those respondents’ answers. But sometimes respondents' answers do not indicate that they could do as their answers. In addition, even if those respondents did as their responds, is that standard in that government nutritional recommendations still useful today? It is ten yeas later, we cannot be convinced that those standards still be regard as correct criteria today. Maybe some food which was concerned as healthy food ten years ago is believed as unhealthy food now days. Just as some seashells regarded as health food before are forbid to eat because scientists found they had some virus.

Last but not the least, the argument rests on an assumption that the increasing in sales of food products containing kiran and the decreasing in sales of sulia could suggest that the citizens of Forsythe have adopted healthier life styles. There is no evidence given in this argument could prove that the reasons why the citizens choose the products containing kiran is because they want to reduce cholesterol. Maybe it is because those foods are good in taste. At the same time the decreased of sales in  reduced sales of sulia, a food that few of the healthiest citizens regularly eat, does not indicate that the food has true effect to lead a good health. It is entirely possible that the sulia is too expensive to the citizens in Forsythe. Without ruling out such possibility, there is no guarantee for us to believe that the citizens of Forsythe have healthier life styles.

As it stands, the statement is not well reasoned. Before we accept the claim that the citizens in Forsythe have adopted healthier life styles, more work is needed by investigating other factors related with healthy life styles. Besides, the argument could be further improved by evaluating all possible alternations.