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Nutritionist: Recently a craze has developed for home juicers, $300 machines that separate the pulp of fruits and vegetables from the juice they contain. ██████████ ██████ ███ █████ ████ █████ ███ ████████ ██ █████ ████████ ████████ ███ █████ ████ ███████ ██ ████ ██ ████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ ███████ █ █████ ███████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ███ ████ ██ ███████ ███████ ███ █████ ██ ██ ██████████ ████ █████ █████████ ████ ███ ████ ██ ███ █████ ██ █████████ ███ ███ ██████████ ████ ██ ████ ███ ████ ████ ████████████ ████ ████ ██████ ██ ███ ████ ██████ ██████ ███ █ ███████

Structure: Counter-Argument

The nutritionist is arguing against some people's claims about the health benefits of having a home juicer that separates fruit and vegetable juice from the pulp. These people claim various health benefits come from drinking this juice, but the nutritionist counters that there is no evidence that juice separated from pulp has any beneficial properties that it lacks when it is unseparated (i.e., still in the fruit or vegetable). In short, the nutritionist concludes, it's not worth buying a juicer — people should just eat fruits and vegetables whole.

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Weaken

The nutritionist assumes that the claimed health benefits imply that the separated juice has some new qualities it did not have before. But it's possible these benefits don't come from some new properties of the juice, but just from the fact that people can consume more fruits and vegetables when they are juiced. So the nutritionist overlooks the possibility that the benefits of juicers aren't about quality but about quantity.

Similarly, it's possible that, even though the juice has the same qualities in whole fruits and vegetables, the pulp has some negative effects when consumed in too-large quantities. The nutritionist also assumes this isn't the case. An answer choice targeting any of these assumptions would effectively weaken the nutritionist's argument.

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Correct. This is exactly what we pre-phrased above. The benefit of these juicers isn't that they add new nutrients to the juice, but that they make it easier for people to consume a given amount of nutrients. It's easier to get a certain amount of nutrients from juice than it is from solid food. So (A) effectively undermines the nutritionist's argument that the juicers aren't worth the money.

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Incorrect. If anything, (B) strengthens the nutritionist's argument by providing another reason why people should eat whole fruits and vegetables instead of buying juicers.

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Incorrect. The nutritionist's argument that people should "save their money" isn't based on $300 being "a major expense," but on the claim that these juicers don't provide any benefits people can't get from eating whole fruits and vegetables. So (C) isn't relevant to the argument. The nutritionist would still tell people to save their money even if the juicers cost less than $300.

Illusory inconsistency

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Incorrect. (D) tries to establish the nutritionist's credentials as someone who knows how these juicers work. This doesn't undermine the nutritionist's argument.

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Incorrect. Vitamin pills are completely irrelevant to the argument, which only talks about juice versus whole fruits and vegetables.

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