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People who consume a lot of honey tend to have fewer cavities than others have.
Honey is high in sugar.
Sugar is one of the leading causes of tooth decay.
How could it be that people who consume a lot of honey, which is known to be high in sugar, tend to have fewer cavities? One possibility is that honey possesses some other compounds that somehow prevent cavities.
Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent paradox described above?
People who eat a lot
Even though these people are consuming very little sugar from other sources, they are still consuming large amounts of sugar in their honey. So why do they not develop cavities as often?
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Many people who consume a
This only applies to “many” (i.e., some) people. Furthermore, there’s no reason to believe that consuming sugar in dissolved form is somehow less likely to cause cavities.
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People's dental hygiene habits vary
This would only help if it were also known that consumers of honey tend to have better dental hygiene than those who do not.
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Refined sugars have been linked
Health problems other than dental decay are not relevant to resolving the apparent paradox.
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Honey contains bacteria that inhibit
Why this is right
This matches the predicted explanation that honey has other compounds that somehow prevent cavities.
Skill tested: Paradox · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
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