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Re: Health professionals have argued that too much butter in a person's di [#permalink]
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lilygranger wrote:
Why can b not be the answer

Hello, lilygranger. Answer choice (B) employs a common trap in overstating a case—note the definitive language in does not have—when a more reasonable inference would use suggestive language—e.g., may, could. (In fact, you can see probably and may in answer choice (D).) This is NOT to say that soft language is always correct or that definitive language is incorrect. In this case, the passage simply does not provide enough information about butter to lead us to the conclusion that it does not have a deleterious effect on the human heart. Two populations are compared, and only butter consumption is examined. What if Koreans, for instance, ate a lot of beef and pork that also led to the dangerous overdevelopment in the bloodstream of high-density lipoproteins that can clog arteries? Then, it could be true that the effect, the incidence of heart attacks, would not be linked to butter consumption, and the true connection might be the consumption of any foods, in certain quantities, that produced HDLs in abundance.

Perhaps that makes more sense now. If not, feel free to ask for further guidance. Good luck with your studies.

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