Q15 - Nutritionist: Most fad diets prescribe

[mshinners]

Question Type:
Most Strongly Supported

Stimulus Breakdown:
Most fad diets tell people to eat only avocadoes (example). But foods are different, and people are different. Everyone should eat their fruits and veggies, though.

Answer Anticipation:
There's overlap between the first and second statements, so that could lead to an answer (most fad diets aren't good for everyone). Also, the last statement could lead to an inference since it's so strong, but I don't know what that would be without just restating it.

Correct answer:
(D)

Answer choice analysis:
(A) While this might be what fad diets should recommend, there's no indication that they do. Based on the stimulus, it's possible all fad diets are bad diets (I'm pretty sure that's the name of an article on a health blog somewhere out there).

(B) Degree/detail creep. Fruits and veggies may protect against health issues, but the stimulus doesn't state they do this using nutrients. Also, "the only" is too strong.

(C) Degree. There could be two people with the same health problems.

(D) Bingo. Since fad diets are narrow in what they recommend, and people vary widely in dietary needs, most given fad diets will fail to be good for some people.

(E) Degree, all over the play. "very few if any" and "every food" are red flags.

Takeaway/Pattern:
Look for overlap in the premises.

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[andrewgong01]

[b][size=100](E) Degree, all over the play. "very few if any" and "every food" are red flags.

Takeaway/Pattern:
Look for overlap in the premises.

#officialexplanation

What does "E" mean?

Is it saying there are little to no common nutrient( e.g. Vitamin B) that can be found across all foods or does it mean "All food (Except fruits and vegetable) contain little to no nutrient?

[LaurenP895]

Im pretty sure it means "There are very few nutrients (if any) in foods other than fruits and vegetables" AKA saying all foods lack/have few nutrients except fruits and vegetables

[DPCTE4325]

No that’s not what E is saying. Answer choice E is saying that there hardly exists any nutrients, if at all, that are present in ALL foods excluding fruits and veggies.

And this isn’t inferable because all we know is that different foods have different nutrients, which is different. We don’t know which nutrients are omnipresent in ALL FOODS.

Im pretty sure it means "There are very few nutrients (if any) in foods other than fruits and vegetables" AKA saying all foods lack/have few nutrients except fruits and vegetables