Honey Nut Lies
“Bee Happy Bee Healthy” is the slogan for Honey Nut Cheerios. The strongest argument for us to want to be happy is, happiness being linked to health. We see happiness being linked to health everywhere even our breakfast table. The Truth is being happy will make us healthier but, it’s the people who are healthy that are happy. Being told that this cereal is going to improve our health is supposed to make us happy. The people who have actual heart issues can’t be cured by some cereal with vitamins and less sugar. The campaign is just meant to connect us with eating this cereal, being healthy and of course happy. If a company doesn’t get us to think that their product will make us happy they need a new marketing team.
Honey Nut Cheerios is not the real issue here. The problem is that happiness being this magical thing that makes us healthy is simply not true. In Psychology & Health’s “is Happiness a cause of health?” author Michael Argyle mentions “Dutch people aged 65 or over and, controlling for a range of demographic variables, found that happier individuals lived longer. “ Argyle giving us these happy old Dutch people is great, although he forgets to mention that these people are still alive at age 65. People that have no major medical issues are more likely to be happy. He does not mention all the Dutch people who died of cancer before the age of thirty. These people were probably not happy and happiness is not going to cure their cancer.
Happiness is not some beam of light that creates health. Health is something that brings happiness. When we are healthier we have a better chance of being happy. This is caused by the lack of stress in which good health brings. We don’t have to worry about medical bills or even drastic enough a shortened timestamp on our life. The meaning of happiness bringing healthiness is just the ability to look past current small setbacks such as a cold and look at the bigger picture of generally good health.
Works Cited:
Argyle, Michael. “Is happiness a cause of health?.” Psychology and Health 12.6 (1997): 769-781. April 9th 2014.
Honey Nut Cheerios, Breakfast Cereal, Ate April 10th 2014
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Counterintuitive Fall 2022 
feedback please
Feedback provided. —DSH (It sounds bitchy when I read it back, Marcus. I’m sorry. I meant to be helpful. Your language is getting much cleaner and less convoluted but years of writing a steady stream of consciousness have not trained you to be clear; that will take some practice.
Hey, Marcus
P1. A rhetorical note. If I asked you to tell me your argument, you would never phrase your answer this way: Happiness being linked to health. Instead, you’d say: Happiness is linked to health.
Therefore, you phrase sentences about arguments similarly. For example: The strongest argument for us to want to be happy is that happiness is linked to health.
Now that we’ve phrased it correctly, let’s work on the argument’s meaninglessness. What does it mean to say, Happiness is linked to health? Are rats linked cheese? Yes. Are they linked to the bubonic plague? Yes. To cats? Yes. To laboratory experiments? Yes. So what is the nature of the relationship “linked”? It doesn’t mean much of anything, does it?
What does Honey Nut Cheerios claim to be the relationship between happiness and health? You tell us. Then make the rest of your paragraph equally clear.
P2. Of course, Honey Nut Cheerios isn’t an issue at all. It’s a breakfast cereal. How does an “issue” become a “problem” across a period?
May I suggest a model for your first two sentences that eliminates a lot of squirmy language?
Punctuation for both Psychology & Health and for the title.
Your quote sounds like a misquote. For it to be accurate, the old folks would have to have done the research on themselves and “found” the results.
P3. What in the world does: “We don’t have to worry about medical bills or even drastic enough a shortened timestamp on our life” mean?
In general, you’re still creating confusion with the flip-flopping claims about whether happiness creates health or health creates happiness, Marcus. Consider how many times you offer phrases that include one or the other:
—happiness being linked to health.
—happiness being linked to health
—being happy will make us healthier but,
—the people who are healthy that are happy
—that this cereal will improve our health is supposed to make us happy
—eating this cereal, being healthy and of course happy
—their product will make us happy
—that happiness makes us healthy is simply not true
—Is Happiness a Cause of Health?
—that happier individuals lived longer
—[healthy people] are more likely to be happy
—[cancer victims] were not happy and happiness is not going to cure their cancer.
—Happiness is not some beam of light that creates health.
—Health is something that brings happiness.
—When we are healthier we have a better chance of being happy
—lack of stress [happiness] which good health brings
—happiness bringing healthiness is just . . . good health.
It’s a little overwhelming, isn’t it?