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by sk8ternite » Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:03 pm
Despite the popularity of vitamin and mineral supplements, people taking them are not giving themselves any significant nutritional advantage. Vitamins and minerals derived from fresh fruits and vegetables have far more potency than those processed in pill form. Not long ago, in fact, the Surgeon General recommended that people consume five servings of fruit and vegetables each day.

Which of the following is an assumption upon which the above conclusion is based?

a. vitamin supplements offer no health benefit
b.meats and fish do not contain healthy levels of vitamins and minerals
c. frozen vegetables and fruits are not an adequate source of vitamin nutrition
d. it would take an enormous amount of fresh fruits and vegetables, consumed on a daily basis, to offer a worthwhile health advantage
e. people who consume vitamins and minerals in pill form would consume significant amounts of fresh fruits and vegetables, whether or not they take vitamin and mineral supplements.
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by niraj_a » Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:17 pm
E?

will explain if i am correct.
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by vikram_k51 » Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:14 pm
D seems good.OA?
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by gmatmachoman » Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:19 am
IMO A
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by arorag » Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:22 am
will go with A
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by niraj_a » Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:30 am
wouldn't A contradict the following part of the premise?

any significant nutritional advantage.
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by sk8ternite » Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:46 pm
OA is E
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by riteshbindal » Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:02 pm
Can someone please explain?
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hi ritesh

by siddharth rastogi » Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:47 pm
the answer is e

as other answers do not fill the gap b/w the (evidence) that fresh vegetables aand fruits have far more potency than pills and (conclusion) that despite popularity............. people are not giving themseves any nutritional advantage.

But choice e acts as a link to the evidense and the conclusion as it sumrizes that whether people take vitamin pill or not, they would have to take lot of fresh veg..and fruits. so, stating that pills do not provide any significant nutritional value.

hope this will help.......
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hi ritesh

by siddharth rastogi » Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:50 pm
the answer is e

as other answers do not fill the gap b/w the (evidence) that fresh vegetables aand fruits have far more potency than pills and (conclusion) that despite popularity............. people are not giving themseves any nutritional advantage.

But choice e acts as a link to the evidense and the conclusion as it sumrizes that whether people take vitamin pill or not, they would have to take lot of fresh veg..and fruits. so, stating that pills do not provide any significant nutritional value.

hope this will help.......
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by kamalsinghy » Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:01 am
@sk8ternite

Could you please post official explanation for OA.
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by komal » Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:41 pm
Despite the popularity of vitamin and mineral supplements, people taking them are not giving themselves any significant nutritional advantage. Vitamins and minerals derived from fresh fruits and vegetables have far more potency than those processed in pill form. Not long ago, in fact, the Surgeon General recommended that people consume five servings of fruit and vegetables each day.

Which of the following is an assumption upon which the above conclusion is based?

I WOULD LIKE TO OPEN THIS POST AGAIN, THE QUESTION IS IN OG 12 AND THE EXPLANATION GIVEN IS AS FOLLOWS :

(A) In many foods, the natural combination of vitamins with other nutrients makes those vitamins more usable by the body than are vitamins added in vitamin supplements.
Correct. This information strengthens the argument more than the information in any of the other options.

(8) People who regularly eat cereals fortified with vitamin supplements sometimes neglect to eat the foods in which the vitamins occur naturally.
This statement explains that some who eat fortified cereal sometimes omit other foods from their diet. But this bit of sociological information is irrelevant to the scientific issue of which type of breakfast is a better source of vitamins.

(C) Foods often must be fortified with vitamin supplements because naturally occurring vitamins are removed during processing.
This statement provides an answer to the question, "Why are some foods fortified with vitamins?" It does not address the question at issue, "Which type of breakfast is a better source of vitamins?"

(D) Unprocessed cereals are naturally high in several of the vitamins that are usually added to fortified breakfast cereals.
This information is not evidence that a well-balanced breakfast is a better source of certain vitamins than is fortified cereal alone.

(E) Cereals containing vitamin supplements are no harder to digest than similar cereals without added vitamins.
This information tells us that fortified cereal is not especially hard to digest-but does not indicate that a breakfast of fortified cereal alone is an inferior source of vitamins
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by gauravgundal » Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:27 pm
Despite the popularity of vitamin and mineral supplements, people taking them are not giving themselves any significant nutritional advantage. Vitamins and minerals derived from fresh fruits and vegetables have far more potency than those processed in pill form. Not long ago, in fact, the Surgeon General recommended that people consume five servings of fruit and vegetables each day.

Which of the following is an assumption upon which the above conclusion is based?

a. vitamin supplements offer no health benefit
b.meats and fish do not contain healthy levels of vitamins and minerals
c. frozen vegetables and fruits are not an adequate source of vitamin nutrition
d. it would take an enormous amount of fresh fruits and vegetables, consumed on a daily basis, to offer a worthwhile health advantage
e. people who consume vitamins and minerals in pill form would consume significant amounts of fresh fruits and vegetables, whether or not they take vitamin and mineral supplements


IMO E

Argument didn't talk about the health advantage.It is saying more about nutritional advantage.
Nutritional adv. is different from health adv.

From this we can just cancel two answer choices, A and D .A and D talk about Health advantage.

C,B and E
C and B choices talk about different group so they are wrong.
Thats it. we are left with only one answer choice. E

even if u negate E the argument falls ...
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by joseph32 » Sun May 15, 2016 11:43 pm
I'd say E but I'm afraid more because of my intuition than any logic.
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