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Sugar and childhood obesity

by beat_gmat_09 » Fri Sep 10, 2010 7:00 am
Ensuring that children consume less sugar is among the most effective ways to curb childhood obesity. Recently, with this goal in mind, school officials have begun to replace high calorie sugary drinks in school vending machines with bottled water, unsweetened fruit juices, and sugar free sodas. Since students spend so much time in school, officials reason that removing access to sugary drinks during school hours will cause a dramatic reduction in the intake of sugar.

Which of the following, if true, most undermines the school officials' plan?

A) Unsweetened fruit juices contain more sugar than does bottled water.

B) Many students have access to sugary drinks both before and after school.

C) Sugar free sodas contain artificial sweeteners that some medical officials link to headaches and other
health concerns.

D) Sugary snack foods comprise the majority of sales in school vending machines.

E) The average school-aged child consumes two twenty-ounce sugary drinks every day.

Please provide the reasoning
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by beatthegmatinsept » Fri Sep 10, 2010 7:33 am
IMO B. As long as students have access to high sugar drinks outside of school, it won't help reduce obesity.
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by lokesh r » Fri Sep 10, 2010 8:16 am
IMO B.

School officials assume that by replacing high sugary drinks with bottled water can curb childhood obesity. But as long as children have access to sugar in other ways other than in school, one cannot curb childhood obesity.

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by vishalj » Fri Sep 10, 2010 8:46 am
IMO B.

I came up with the below assumptions

1. Children will not have access to sugary drink after school.
2. Children have not genetic disorder that leads to obesity inspite of sugar food.
3. Children do not bring sugar food from home.
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by lokesh r » Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:17 pm
beat_gmat_09 wrote:Ensuring that children consume less sugar is among the most effective ways to curb childhood obesity. Recently, with this goal in mind, school officials have begun to replace high calorie sugary drinks in school vending machines with bottled water, unsweetened fruit juices, and sugar free sodas. Since students spend so much time in school, officials reason that removing access to sugary drinks during school hours will cause a dramatic reduction in the intake of sugar.

Which of the following, if true, most undermines the school officials' plan?

A) Unsweetened fruit juices contain more sugar than does bottled water.

B) Many students have access to sugary drinks both before and after school.

C) Sugar free sodas contain artificial sweeteners that some medical officials link to headaches and other
health concerns.

D) Sugary snack foods comprise the majority of sales in school vending machines.

E) The average school-aged child consumes two twenty-ounce sugary drinks every day.

Please provide the reasoning
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by beat_gmat_09 » Fri Sep 10, 2010 7:00 pm
OA D
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by reply2spg » Fri Sep 10, 2010 10:42 pm
I am just amazed by seeing all answering B. No, B is not the correct answer.

Question asks us to undermine the school official's plan. School official cares about the whether children have less sugary drink in school. He does not care what students do outside the school and this point is totally out of scope.

D gives alternate reason, which clearly weakens the question. Hope this will help
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by lokesh r » Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:14 am
beat_gmat_09 wrote:Ensuring that children consume less sugar is among the most effective ways to curb childhood obesity. Recently, with this goal in mind, school officials have begun to replace high calorie sugary drinks in school vending machines with bottled water, unsweetened fruit juices, and sugar free sodas. Since students spend so much time in school, officials reason that removing access to sugary drinks during school hours will cause a dramatic reduction in the intake of sugar.

Which of the following, if true, most undermines the school officials' plan?

A) Unsweetened fruit juices contain more sugar than does bottled water.

B) Many students have access to sugary drinks both before and after school.

C) Sugar free sodas contain artificial sweeteners that some medical officials link to headaches and other
health concerns.

D) Sugary snack foods comprise the majority of sales in school vending machines.

E) The average school-aged child consumes two twenty-ounce sugary drinks every day.

Please provide the reasoning
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This really is good question..

School children eat sugary snack foods and not sugary drinks kept in vending machines..so by replacing sugary drinks with other unsugary stuffs does not help school officials curb obesity. Because sugary snack foods, which children prefer the most is still available in vending machine..

So answer is D not B.
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