Self-study
Nutritionist: A study revealed that although most adults estimated their diets to correspond closely with the recommendations of standard nutritional guidelines, most of their diets did not come close to those recommendations. ████ █████ ███ ███ ██████████████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ██ █████ █████ ███ █████████████ █████ ██████ ██ ████ █████ ██████ ██ ████ ████ ███████████ ██████████ ██████ ███ ███████████ ███████ █████ ███ ███ ████ ███ ████████████████ ███ ██████████████ █████ ███ ██████ ██ █████ ███ ██████ ████ ███ ███ ███████████████ ███ ███████ ████ ████ █████ ██ ███ █████ ███████████
Summary
A study concluded that most adult’s diets do not conform to standard nutritional guidelines. This is despite most adults estimating that their diets conform closely with the guidelines. Women and men underestimate the amount of fat in their diets and overestimate their intake of other foods. Women’s diets did not meet guidelines in most food categories, especially fruits and vegetables. Men met the guidelines’ recommendations for breads, but underestimated their fat intake by half and did not meet guidelines in all other categories.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
In general, men in the study did not consume the amount of fruits and vegetables recommended by standard nutritional guidelines.
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This answer is unsupported. We know from the stimulus that adults underestimated their intake of "most" foods, but it's entirely possible that they correctly judged their compliance for certain food categories.
b
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This answer is unsupported. We don’t know whether more men than women were aware of their shortfalls when it comes to the standard nutritional guidelines. We only know that most of the adults in the study overestimated their compliance with the guidelines.
c
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This answer is unsupported. The stimulus doesn't tell us anything about how aware study participants were of the guidelines. All we know about bread is that men's intake met the recommendations; we don't know if the same is true of women, and either way, we don't know whether it was due to awareness of the guidelines or just coincidence.
d
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This answer is anti-supported. We know from the stimulus that men overestimated their intake of all food categories other than breads. To estimate your intake as lower than it actually is would be an underestimation, not an overestimation.
e
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This answer is strongly supported. We know from the stimulus that men met the recommendations for bread and fell short in all other categories. Therefore, men must not have met the recommended guidelines for fruits and vegetables.