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TOPIC: ARGUMENT145 - A new study collected data that shows that people who snore are more likely to gain weight than are people who do not snore. It is well known that many people who snore also stop breathing frequently during the night for a few seconds, a condition called sleep apnea. The interruption of breathing wakes the person-often so briefly that the waking goes unnoticed-and can leave the person too tired during the day to exercise. Anyone who snores, therefore, should try to eat less than the average person and to exercise more.
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In this argument the author recommends that people who snore should try to eat less than average person and to exercise more, because the one who snores is more likely to gain weight than those who doesn't. To support his claim, the author brings us some evidences about how snoring will make people gain weight. However, this argument suffers from several fatal flaws that weaken the its convincing.
In the first place, the speaker's assertion that people who snore stop breathing frequently during the night for a few seconds is not well supported. Without any credible evidence to demonstrate this claim, we cannot know how the break of breathing happened and, more importantly, what effect will be brought by these breaks of breathing. Maybe these breaks are too short to influence the sleeping quality of people who snore, or can not cause obvious effect on their daytime energies. Therefore, we cannot reach the conclusion that snoring will do harm to people's sleeping.
Even to concede that these interruptions of breathing will wake the sleeping quality of a person, we cannot conclude that these interruptions will make the person too tired during the daytime to exercise. Common sense tells us that many people who have the symptom of snoring, although someone’s are not so frequently, act quite normal in the daytime as people who do not snore. The lack of evidence to show that the interruptions of breathing will cause the exhaustion during the daytime will make the argument unconvincing.
Moreover, even these interruptions will truly have effects on the people's daily exercise, the author's suggestion that people who snore should eat less and exercise more is also open to doubt. According to the speaker's assertion, the interruption of breathing will wake people up, and weaken the quality of there sleeping, leave the exhaustions on people. Then we can predict that this declination of people's sleeping quality will also make them to lose weight, because these frequent waking of person will consume much more energy and are likely to be more tired than people who sleep well and deep. Therefore, those people who snore have no need to eat less and exercise more in order to keep weight. In contrary, they may even need to eat more to compensate this energy in order to keep healthy.
In sum, the author's suggestion for the people who snore is quite unfounded. To strengthen his claim, he should provide more evidences to convince us on the points that how the snoring will actually cause people to gain weight.
[ 本帖最后由 yshxa 于 2007-10-29 11:33 编辑 ] |
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