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The author concludes that there’s no reason to believe that swimming immediately after eating causes muscle cramps. This is because muscle cramps are caused by either muscle fatigue and dehydration or by reduced blood flow to the muscles. Muscle fatigue and dehydration aren’t related to eating, and eating doesn’t cause enough reduced blood flow to the muscles to cause cramps.
The conclusion is the author’s counter to the belief that swimming immediately after eating causes muscle cramps: “[T]here is no reason to believe this.”
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This twists the author’s conclusion, which is only that swimming after eating doesn’t cause muscle cramps. The author never suggests swimming after eating is not dangerous for some other reason besides muscle cramps.
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The author acknowledges that reduced blood flow might not be a cause of muscle cramps, but never states that it is definitely not a cause.
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This is a paraphrase of the conclusion.
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This is a premise.
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This relates only to a premise. And, it twists what that premise actually says. The author states that there’s not enough blood that goes to the stomach during digestion to reduce blood flow to muscles. This doesn’t mean that there’s no reduced blood flow to muscles at all.
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