If the Dietary Guidelines Promulgated by the Department of Agriculture

question 191

Multiple Choice

If the dietary guidelines promulgated by the Department of Agriculture, which recommend two servings of fruit, three servings of vegetables, and two servings of milk products every day, are to have any real effect, then fundamental cultural changes will have to occur, and people will have to rethink their inherited notions about the purpose of eating-whether we should eat for pleasure or for health-and what is necessary for a meal to be satisfying.

• A) Nonargument.
• B) Argument; conclusion: The dietary guidelines ... are to have any real effect.
• C) Argument; conclusion: Dietary guidelines have been promulgated by the Department of Agriculture.
• D) Argument; conclusion: Fundamental cultural changes ... to be satisfying.
• E) Argument; conclusion: We must rethink whether we should eat for pleasure or for health.

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