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The argument concludes that avoiding dairy foods will increase the probability of maintaining good health. This is supported by two premises: if you avoid eating dairy you’re less likely to eat fat, and avoiding eating fat reduces the risk of heart disease.

The argument claims that avoiding dairy is good for health overall, just based on claims about heart disease. This overlooks the possibility that avoiding dairy could also have negative impacts on health. For example, dairy may provide some critical nutrient, or might reduce the risk of a different disease.

Even though eating dairy could have the negative consequence of raising the risk of heart disease, avoiding eating dairy might also cause negative health effects. This possibility is ignored by the argument.

The argument isn’t claiming that there are no other ways to decrease the risk of heart disease, only discussing one possible way, namely avoiding eating dairy.

The argument doesn’t make this presumption. It claims that avoiding dairy will increase the probability of maintaining good health, but it doesn’t tell us we “ought” to avoid dairy.

All the evidence provided in the argument is directly relevant to the conclusion. The issue is just that the conclusion is broader than what the evidence allows, not that the evidence is irrelevant.

The argument consistently sticks to discussing probabilities and likeliness, and never makes a jump to saying that something will definitely occur.

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