Read the excerpt from "Healthy Eating."
Unless you're trying to lose weight, nutritionists like to avoid diets.
"We were just laughing about that, like we could sell fairy dust and that's pretty much what a lot of these fad diets are about," said Natalie Castro-Romero, the corporate dietician at Baptist who oversees the company's 15,000 employees.
"One very common thing that happens is people feel overwhelmed and they need a starter to get something going, like a detox, but there’s no truth behind that."
For some people, small changes can lead to big results.
What would make the author’s argument more effective?
A. addressing a counterclaim
B. including a quotation from an excerpt
C. adding statistics about dieting
D. adding facts about why diets do not work

a

Explanation:

Many people believe that these "fairy dusts" are making a difference for them and addressing one of the claims brought up by those people could make this more effective of an argument

d seems accurate. maybe they wanted to see if anyone would actually like it. people seem to just like any simple thing on social media so it makes sense for an experiment to be conducted just to see if it would actually

sorry if its wrong i tried. i'm also sorry i'm awkward and bad at explaining

1. drag the central argument paine presents and its two claims to complete the chart. argument claims america may have flourished more had it not been under the power of any european country. america may have flourished under britain in the past, but there is no guarantee that it will continue to flourish in the future. america will continue to flourish as long as the essential food products it sells are bought and eaten in europe. the american colonies will no longer flourish when britain makes war against them. britain's king has shown himself to be prejudiced against the colonies, rather than wanting them to flourish.

2.select the sentence in this passage that can be classified as a false statement.

although few humans per year are attacked by polar bears, any individual attack can be terrifying and even fatal. the warming of arctic regions has allowed the intrusion of humans into the polar bears’ habitat, increasing the danger of harmful contacts. remaining alert and using precautions can humans avoid a negative encounter with a polar bear. traveling together and staying close to the group can humans avoid bear attacks. certain weapons, including nonlethal ones such as pepper spray, are effective against polar bears. once a bear has decided to attack, however, nothing can be done.

3.select the sentence in this passage that demonstrates the fallacy of making an extreme either-or claim.

the civil war was the bloodiest conflict in the history of the united states. more than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives. the fighting took place in many different cities and throughout the countryside. the wounded often suffered acute pain while in the field hospitals. they all should have asked for better care. william hammond, the surgeon general of the union army, created a new system of sanitary field care. if people do not accept hammond as the most important person from the civil war, they have no understanding of the war.