Paleo diets, in which one eats how early hominids (human ancestors) did, are becoming increasingly popular. Proponents claim our bodies evolved to eat these types of food, especially bone broth, a soup made by cooking animal bones for several hours. They believe it has many health-promoting nutrients, such as cartilage, which can heal our joints, and chondroitin, which promotes nerve regeneration. Skeptics point out that ingested cartilage can’t replenish cartilage in your knees or elbows and ingested chondroitin doesn’t make our brains any healthier. Yet, there is strong anecdotal evidence that people who consume bone broth have fewer metabolic and inflammatory diseases than those who don’t. Therefore, ancient humans knew something about our physiology that we don’t, and that by emulating the way they ate, we can cure many chronic illnesses.
Is paleo diet the cause for nerve regeneration and helthier brains? Were ancient humans aware of there effects?
First of all, the unstated assumption of the argument is the same one, proponents are using for their advantage. The assumption is based on the fact, that the food from animal bones cooked for hours, may have many nutrients, which helps nerve regeneration. However, the argument does not contains any evidenc for such assumption. There might be other causes for better nerve regeneration as this kind of food. First of all, it would be necessary to isolate all the other factors, which affects nerve regeneration, other nutrients. As the evidence is missing, it might be true that people who tend to accomodate paleo diet to their daily consumption are the ones who are different that the ones who does not, in way, that they tend to care more about their well being in general. They eat more healthy food and analyse the food consumed much more, as someone who does not care about her or his consumption in general. On the other hand, people who are usually taking dies might live in much better conditions and be more well of, than someone, who just trying to survive in this world, and therefore does not even consider eating some special food, but eat at all. The two groups of people just seems different from the beginning, what can make comparison even more difficult. It would be helpfull to compare two groups of dieters, both applying different diets with only difference of certain food, paleo diet contains.
On the other hand, as after finding out that paleo diet is directly promoting nerve regeneration, it needs to be alos examined, if this kind of nerve regeneration makes our brains healthier. This is necessary in order to analyse the argument of the skeptics stated. It might help certain aspect of nerve regeneration, after sport or physical activity, however, not mental activity or vice versa. Skeptics and proponents might argue about two diverse issues.
Lastly, argument stated quite firmly, based on anecdotal evidence only, that ancient humans humand knew something more about our physiology than we do nowadays. First off all, this statement is highly questionable, as it is based only on anecdotal evidence, that people consuming bone broth have fewer inflammatory disieses. To be able to firmly butress this causal relationship, scientific evidenc ewould be necessary based on emplirical findings. The ground for such a statement is shaky and anecdotes are certainly not enough for strong causal relationship. Second of all, we could neither be sure, that our ancients knew something we do not know now, even if the sceintific evidence supports previous statement. They might have been having this diet without any othe additional knowledge about it impacts. Another evidence is in need to support this statement.
Stated argument is based on certain assumption which are not supported by any scientific evidence. Therefore, if the assumptions are not true, and evidence would say something different, argument would easily fall apart, in case of proponents, skeptics and author as well.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 514 350
No. of Characters: 2547 1500
No. of Different Words: 239 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.761 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.955 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.525 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 169 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 130 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 96 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 61 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.56 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.774 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.56 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.28 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.48 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.097 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 289, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'contain'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: contain
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Line 7, column 289, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'contain'
Suggestion: contain
...eration. However, the argument does not contains any evidenc for such assumption. There ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, lastly, may, second, so, therefore, well, in general, kind of, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 31.0 16.3942115768 189% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2650.0 2260.96107784 117% => OK
No of words: 514.0 441.139720559 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15564202335 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76146701107 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63699859712 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 204.123752495 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492217898833 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 819.0 705.55239521 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 4.96107784431 302% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 2.70958083832 332% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.7054608176 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.0 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.56 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.12 5.70786347227 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132105641303 0.218282227539 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0390765082974 0.0743258471296 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0389225252232 0.0701772020484 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.063492556325 0.128457276422 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0447930175807 0.0628817314937 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 98.500998004 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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