Which sentence uses parallel structure correctly? a. the death penalty is too expensive, it takes a long time, and criminals aren't deterred. b. texting while driving causes automobile accidents, a person to be distracted, and it is bad. c. animal testing has discover medicines, saves lives, and will make people healthy. d. processed foods are bad for your lifestyle, your complexion, and your health.

D. Processed foods are bad for your lifestyle, your complexion, and your health.

Parallel writting helps making a writting easier to read, in this case it creates a patter in which you know that something is bad, and then you don´t have to repeat that is bad you just enlist the things that it damages.

Processed foods are bad for your lifestyle, your complexion, and your health.

Further Explanation:

Processed foods contain many food items that are made from refined food products which often undergo the processing for the removal of the fiber content which is there in them before processing. Everything starting from white rice to refined flour or products which are made from flour such as cookies, cakes, noodles etc are processed food items. Because of the refining process, most of the food products lose their valuable nutrients such as vitamins and minerals which are naturally present in them and considered as beneficial for consumption.  

Apart from that, there is an addition of chemicals and additives which contribute to ill effects over the human body. Processed foods increase the risk of obesity, increase the risk of diabetes, Increases the risk of heart diseases as well as a person may suffer hypertension because of the high consumption of processed foods.  

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Answer Details:

Grade: High School

Chapter: Parallel Structures

Subject: English

Keywords:

Processed Foods, Flour, nutrients, Vitamins, Minerals, Heart diseases, Hypertension, Diabetes, Refining, process.