The writer Wendell Berry once described Americans as being the most unhappy people in the world because they are always having face lifts and fretting over their weight, while "the water they drink, the food they eat and the air they breathe are all poisonous."
作家溫德爾．培理在「美國的焦慮」一書中，形容美國人可能是世界歷史上最不快樂的居民。因為他老是緊繃著臉，擔心自己太胖，「他喝的水，他吃的食物，他呼吸的空氣，… … 全都有毒。」