Q: In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine which sentence can be inferred from the statement. Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or have details that are not mentioned in the statement. Indicate your answer as 1,2, or 3 corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence.
Statement: But a heavy meal, taken at about the same time as the poison, might retard its effects, though hardly to that extent. Choices: 1. Eating a lot of food after being poisoned should help prevent the effects, though not this much. 2. The effects were retarded so much because there wasn't as much poison. 3. Eating a heavy meal with the poison would increase the effects.
A:
1