Public health officials recommend rigorous physical activity to ---- the adverse metabolic effects of sedentary lifestyles.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. counteract
- Step 1: Physical activity acts against and neutralizes negative health outcomes.
- Step 2: The verb needed means to oppose or neutralize a negative influence.
- Step 3: 'Counteract' means to act against something in order to reduce its force.
Answer
counteract.
Why not the others: 'Exacerbate' means to make a problem worse; 'Perpetuate' means to make continue indefinitely; 'Disseminate' means to spread information widely.
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