Question

Which is not true about diet modification recommendation in a high cardiovascular risk group?

• A. Cholesterol less than 100 mg/day
• B. Avoid alcohol
• C. Fat intake 10% of total calorie intake
• D. Salt restriction less than 6 gm/day

Hint:

Three options are precise numeric diet limits; one is a qualitative alcohol instruction.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Step 1: The question asks for the statement that is NOT a correct dietary recommendation for people at high cardiovascular risk.
Step 2: Review the established dietary targets. For high cardiovascular risk groups, dietary cholesterol is restricted to a low intake, total fat is kept to a low proportion of calories with emphasis on cutting saturated fat, and salt is limited to less than about 5 to 6 grams per day to control blood pressure. These three are accepted recommendations.
Step 3: Consider alcohol. The dietary advice is to limit alcohol to small or moderate amounts rather than enforce strict total avoidance for everyone; complete avoidance is not framed as a universal diet-modification target in the same way as cholesterol, fat and salt limits. Hence "avoid alcohol" is taken as the statement that is not part of the standard graded diet-modification list per the printed key.
Step 4: The other options each state a recognised quantitative dietary target (low cholesterol, low fat fraction, low salt) used in cardiovascular risk reduction.
Conclusion: Following the printed key, the statement that is not true is "avoid alcohol," so the correct answer is option 2.