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Premature babies who receive regular massages are more active than premature babies who do not. Even when all the babies drink the same amount of milk, the massaged babies gain more weight than do the unmassaged babies. This is puzzling because a more active person generally requires a greater food intake to maintain or gain weight.
Which of the following, if true, best reconciles the apparent discrepancy described above?
(A) Increased activity leads to increased levels of hunger, especially when food intake is not also increased.
(B) Massage increases premature babies’ curiosity about their environment, and curiosity leads to increased activity.
(C) Increased activity causes the intestines of premature babies to mature more quickly, enabling the babies to digest and absorb more of the nutrients in the milk they drink.
(D) Massage does not increase the growth rate of babies over one year old, if the babies had not been previously massaged.
(E) Premature babies require a daily intake of nutrients that is significantly higher than that required by babies who were not born prematurely.
Which of the following, if true, best reconciles the apparent discrepancy described above?
(A) Increased activity leads to increased levels of hunger, especially when food intake is not also increased.
(B) Massage increases premature babies’ curiosity about their environment, and curiosity leads to increased activity.
(C) Increased activity causes the intestines of premature babies to mature more quickly, enabling the babies to digest and absorb more of the nutrients in the milk they drink.
(D) Massage does not increase the growth rate of babies over one year old, if the babies had not been previously massaged.
(E) Premature babies require a daily intake of nutrients that is significantly higher than that required by babies who were not born prematurely.
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01 Mar 2018, 16:27
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Choice (C) may not specifically refer to weight, but it is indeed related to weight.
Consider two premature babies who consume the same amount of food. If the intestines of one of the babies are more mature than those of the other baby, then the baby with the more mature intestines will absorb more nutrients from the same quantity of food (i.e. the other baby might lose more nutrients to waste).
The baby that absorbs more nutrients will surely gain more weight, so (C) resolves the discrepancy. (And I'm going to pour my three-month-old a big, fat bottle of milk now.
)I hope that helps!
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25 Nov 2015, 04:58
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Hello,
A specifies that:
Increased activity leads to increased levels of hunger, especially when food intake is not also increased
Does this choice resolve the paradox regarding surprising linkage between the "Increased physical activity" and "Increased weight". No...
If the more active babies are more hungry, then how they are gaining more weight?? Do they are eating too much (No, as the argument mentions same amount of milk).
So this choice is unable to resolve the paradox.
Hope it helps!!
A specifies that:
Increased activity leads to increased levels of hunger, especially when food intake is not also increased
Does this choice resolve the paradox regarding surprising linkage between the "Increased physical activity" and "Increased weight". No...
If the more active babies are more hungry, then how they are gaining more weight?? Do they are eating too much (No, as the argument mentions same amount of milk).
So this choice is unable to resolve the paradox.
Hope it helps!!
25 Nov 2015, 09:05
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Level of activeness of Premature babies
receive regular massages > doesn't receive regular massages
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Consumption of milk
Premature babies who receive regular massages = Premature babies who doesn't receive regular massages
Weight gain
Premature babies who receive regular massages > Premature babies who doesn't receive regular massages
WillGetIt
Premature babies who receive regular massages ----> more active -----> requires a greater food intake ----> to maintain or gain weight.
This literally boils down the issue to the fact that
Premature babies who receive regular massages and are thus active , requires the same amount of food intake as that of Premature babies who doesn't receive regular massages , yet gains weight more quickly.
So, we can say that food is not the factor that is causing the weight gain , but message is the contributing factor.
Comparing (A) and (C) -
A - Talks about hunger and same food intake.
C - Talks about increased activity resulting in absorption of more nutrients in the milk they drink.
Hence IMHO (C)
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