▶ Your Answer : In the reading passage, there is ample support for the author's claim that there are three benefits of eating avocados. However, the professor in the lecture gives several reasons as a rebuttal to the author's point.
First, the professor contends that avocados do not consequently lower the blood pressure. Even though it is true that avocados contain healthy fat that lowers pressure, it is intrinsically "fat". To explain, one avocado contains twenty nine grams of fat, which is about three hundred calories. As a result, it can cause you to gain weight, which results in the increase of blood pressure that offsets the lowering effect. This counters the reading passage's claim that avocados have useful components which can lower your blood pressure.
Next, the professor insists that it is not good for pregnant and breast-feeding woman to have avocados, since it affects milk production and memory glad. Furthermore, baby's stomach is so sensitive that it cannot digest avocados well. This refutes the reading passage's assertion that they are good for pregnancy, since they are abundant of folic acid, which prevents the danger during pregnancy.
Finally, the professor argues that avocados are not cheap at all. He explains that we can buy dozens of bananas or apples with the money with which we can buy one avocado. Besides, growing avocados are a waste of resources. This is because galons of water is required to make that fruit. Needless to say, it is costly than making meet products. This casts doubt on reading passage's suggestion that eating avocados is useful for saving money, since it can supplant meat products and seafood.
To sum up, the professor sucessfully counters the author's claim providing three reasons: Uselessness in lowering blood pressure, harm for pregnant woman and her child, and high cost of them. In conclusion, even though avocados have many benefits, the benefits written in the reading passage are completely misleading.
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