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Dietary cholesterol intake is confounded with saturated fat and other dietary risk factors.
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- requiresa load-bearing premise: the parent is false without itsteward instructions →In typical Western diets, dietary cholesterol intake is positively correlated with saturated fat intake. ↗︎
- specifiesa more specific version of the parentsteward instructions →High dietary cholesterol intake correlates with other unhealthy dietary and lifestyle risk factors. ↗︎
- requiresa load-bearing premise: the parent is false without itsteward instructions →Saturated fat intake raises blood LDL cholesterol. ↗︎
- contradictsthis argues against the parentsteward instructions →Eggs are relatively low in saturated fat but high in dietary cholesterol. ↗︎
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