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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.


This argument concludes that snorers are the people who are more likely to gain weight should eat less and exercise more. To support this conclusion the argument’s proponent cites sleep apnea causes the interruption of breathing and make person too tired to exercise.

This argument suffers from several critical flaws and is therefore unconvincing.
First and foremost, the argument assumes unfairly that sleep apnea is the reason of gaining weight. It is entirely possible that sleep apnea may lead some of snorers stop breathing frequently during the night for a few seconds which is not to equal to all of snorers have such phenomenon . Also, the breaking breath has no evident relations to gaining weight. What we know clearly is that the discontinuous breathing wakes people briefly and peacefully make them too tired to exercise. And this doesn’t mean through the process of breaking breath the tired people have a fate of getting fat. Maybe snorers who are too tired become less fat than before and need not to exercise. Thus, it is not fairly to conclude that sleep apnea help snorers gain weight.

The argument also overlooks many other possible explanations for the interruption of breathing. The sleep apnea happens during the night for a few seconds. Moreover, the discontinuous breathing wakes people briefly and unconsciously. It is doubtful that all of these activities cause people feel tired during the day.
Finally, given snorers may gain weight. Consider that snorers differ in age, weight and health conditions. It is no wise for all of them to loss weight when they feel tired and are forced to exercise.

In sum, this is a weak argument. To strengthen it, the argument’s proponent must consider and eliminate all other possible explanations for the relation between sleep apnea and gaining weight. The proponent must also provide evidence that the whole process of interruption of breathing serve to gain weight. To better assess the argument, I would need more information about the component and characteristics of snorers.