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Many people limit the intake of calories and cholesterol in their diet in order to lose weight and reduce the level of cholesterol in their blood. ████ █ ██████ █████ ███████ ███ ███ █████ ██ ████ ████████ ████ ████████ ██ ████ ███ ███ ██ ███████ ██ ████ ████████ ██ █████ ███ █████ █████ ███ ███████████ ████ ███████ ████ ███ ████████████ ██████████ █ ██████ ███ ████ ██ █ ████████████ ███████████████ ████ ████████
Summary
Some people go on low-calorie, low-cholesterol diets to lose weight and reduce the amount of cholesterol in their blood. When a person loses weight, this causes fat cells to decrease in size. Fat cells contain cholesterol, and as they decrease in size, they release that cholesterol into the bloodstream.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
Therefore, a person on a low-calorie and low-cholesterol diet may as a result have more cholesterol in their blood.
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a
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This answer is strongly supported. Since weight loss causes fat cells to shrink, and therefore to release cholesterol into a person’s bloodstream, a person losing weight due to a diet may experience increased levels of cholesterol in their blood in the short-term.
b
will not lose ██████ ███ ██████ ████ ████ █ ██████ █████ ████ ██ ████ ██ ████████
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know what the effects are of a diet high in calories to draw this comparison.
c
might lose more ██████ ██ █████ ██ █ ████████████ ████████████████ ████ ████ ██ █████ ██ ███ ████████████ ███████████████ ████
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know what the effects are of a low-calorie, high-cholesterol diet to draw this comparison.
d
will not decrease ███ ████ ██ ███ ██ ███ ███ █████
This answer is anti-supported. The stimulus strongly implies that a diet low in calories and low in cholesterol causes a person to lose wieght, which in turn causes a person’s fat cells to shrink.
e
will both decrease ███ █████ ██ ███████████ ██ ███ ██ ███ █████ ███ ████ ██████
This answer is anti-supported. The stimulus strongly implies that a low-calorie, low-cholesterol diet leads to weight loss. That's the whole reason we're talking about the effects of fat cells shrinking as a result of such a diet.