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Citing evidence that obesity rates have increased by more than 10 perc [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 22 Apr 2022, 04:25
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Citing evidence that obesity rates have increased by more than 10 percent in the last 20 years, many doctors have voiced a concern of relaxing the laws governing the processed food industry and continued consumption of sugar-rich foodstuffs will lead to a worsening of the obesity epidemic.

(A) many doctors have voiced a concern of relaxing the laws governing the processed food industry and continued consumption of

(B) many doctors have voiced a concern that relaxation of the laws governing the processed food industry and continually consuming

(C) many doctors have voiced a concern that relaxation of the laws governing the processed food industry and continued consumption of

(D) a concern that many doctors have expressed is that relaxing the laws governing the processed food industry and continually consuming

(E) a concern that many doctors have expressed is that the relaxation of the laws governing the processed food industry and continual consuming of


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In the explanation its mentioned that in option A fails to maintain parallelism between "relaxing the laws " and "continued consumption of". Can someone help me bridge the gap.

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Originally posted by ifyouknowyouknow on 22 Apr 2022, 03:57.
Last edited by Bunuel on 22 Apr 2022, 04:25, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Citing evidence that obesity rates have increased by more than 10 perc [#permalink] New post   22 Apr 2022, 03:58
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Re: Citing evidence that obesity rates have increased by more than 10 perc [#permalink] New post   22 Apr 2022, 08:45
Citing evidence that obesity rates have increased by more than 10 percent in the last 20 years, many doctors have voiced a concern of relaxing the laws governing the processed food industry and continued consumption of sugar-rich foodstuffs will lead to a worsening of the obesity epidemic.

(A) many doctors have voiced a concern of relaxing the laws governing the processed food industry and continued consumption of
relaxing the laws and continued consumption of are not parallel.

(B) many doctors have voiced a concern that relaxation of the laws governing the processed food industry and continually consuming
relaxation of the laws and continually consuming are not parallel.

(C) many doctors have voiced a concern that relaxation of the laws governing the processed food industry and continued consumption of

(D) a concern that many doctors have expressed is that relaxing the laws governing the processed food industry and continually consuming

(E) a concern that many doctors have expressed is that the relaxation of the laws governing the processed food industry and continual consuming of

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Re: Citing evidence that obesity rates have increased by more than 10 perc [#permalink] New post   22 Apr 2022, 14:08
Parallelism is tested in this question. Relaxation and consumption are parrallel. So "C" should be the answer.

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