Schwartz Fat And Happy

Fat and Happy: From Two PerspectivesThe increasing amount of obese individuals leaves society with a number of different viewpoints towards obesity. Obese people attempt to gain acceptance in society but they must first accept themselves. Hillel Schwartz conveys that dieting and trying to lose excess weight is a negative approach towards acceptance in his article Fat and Happy?. Schwartzs uses this to argue that a fat utopia is the perfect society (Schwartz 384). In Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance Mary Ray Worley states that once a fat person has accepted being overweight, only then are they able to carry on a happy satisfying lifestyle while also maintaining the will to shed the extra pounds. Although Schwartz and Worley both support being heavy, their approaches towards wellbeing, satisfaction, and acceptance are significantly different.

In Fat and Happy? Hillel Schwartz describes societys role in the troubles of overweight people and the
In Worleys article, she expresses that ones weight is determined by his or her genetic makeup but doctors, despite knowing this fact, ask their patients to lose weight anyway (Worley 363). Conversely, Schwartz presents the model of the dietitian Herman Tarnower, who was 15 pounds overweight according the weight chart he made himself (Schwartz 383). While they both express that doctors are hypocritical, their reasoning is different. Worley uses the logical fallacy of faulty cause and effect when she does not provide any evidence that an individuals weight is entirely predetermined by his or her genetic makeup. She suggests that obesity occurs because of genes and lack of exercise and overeating have nothing to do with obesity. On the other hand, Schwartz uses the logical fallacy of hasty generalization when he supposes that all doctors are like Doctor