Logic Worksheet

Warning: Most of the facts below are fiction. Believing everything you read may be hazardous to your health.

Claim: You should take large doses of vitamin E daily.

Support:

  1. A study of 3000 MIT undergraduates conducted over a 4-year period showed that those who took large doses of vitamin E daily were healthier than those who followed a sensible health regimen without additional vitamin E.
  2. Most people have a serious vitamin E deficiency. Vitamin E is an important factor in determining general health.
  3. Dr. Katie Wilson, head of Harvard Medical School’s nutritional research unit, claims that mega doses of vitamin E have been shown to enhance overall health.
  4. Most people recognize the useful effects of taking vitamin C supplements, but few recognize that vitamin E supplements are just as important for maintaining good health.
  5. Peeling fingernails, flaking skin, chapped lips, bleeding gums: the signs of vitamin E deficiency are painfully widespread, although the condition is easily preventable through vitamin therapy, consisting of hearty daily doses of this essential vitamin.
  6. Doctors tell us to drink 8-10 glasses of water a day to maintain good health. Yet how many of us do so even though we know that it's a simple way to enhance our well-being? Vitamin E supplementation is just as important and just as simple to do.
  7. Mega doses of vitamin E supply the body with essentials lacking in sufficient quantities in the average diet.
  8. Seeds are one of the major sources of vitamin E. Since most people are don’t eat seeds as a regular part of their daily diet, widespread vitamin E deficiency is an understandable phenomenon.
  9. Dr. Preswell, an eminent professor at Cornell, is studying the possibilities of vitamin E as a cancer-preventative.
  10. Better safe than sorry.
  11. Rats on a diet low in vitamin E quickly develop devastating signs of anemia.
  12. Vitamin E is thought to protect the phospholipids in cell membranes from oxidizing.