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.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The author of the said argument believes that eating paleo diets chronic diseases can be treated and bases his argument on anecdotal evidence. However, such claims seem dubious at best because of the faulty assumptions it relies upon. The assumption that eating habits of ancient human had any correlation with understanding of human physiology is spurious. Further, the lack of any scientific evidence and control study to determine if eating habits of hominids can be useful seem to undermine the conclusion derived by the author.
Ancient man ate food to survive and adapted his eating habits in accordance with the availability of sources of food. As humans evolved, their eating habits developed accordingly. Humans started eating cooked meals instead of the raw food gathered from hunting. The perception that there was a scientific explanation to the kind of food eaten by our ancestors is conceptually flawed.
While it is true that the only motive behind our ancestors' consumption of paleo diets was not solely scientific, the argument is not backed by any scientific study. There is no control group - the one which adheres to the modern food diet, to analyse what components of the paleo diet result in better health of the people who follow it. Is there anything else these individuals do which make them less prone to chronic diseases? Do they live an active lifestyle as compared to other people being referenced here? The argument remains weak unless similar questions are answered.
Further, the "strong anecdotal evidence", as mentioned by the author, claims that people had fewer chronic illnesses than others but fails to quantify the same. One must declare the percentage of people who have benefitted from changing their eating habits so that it can be analysed that such a change is substantive in one leading a healthy lifestyle.
The aforementioned assumptions need to be justified in order to infer that the author's conclusion is suitable and consuming paleo diet would be a new path to a disease-free life, otherwise, such ideas are just a facade to gain attention.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 342 350
No. of Characters: 1717 1500
No. of Different Words: 194 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.3 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.02 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.686 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 135 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 43 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.375 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.894 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.438 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.309 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.569 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.071 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 80, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, however, if, so, while, kind of, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1773.0 2260.96107784 78% => OK
No of words: 342.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18421052632 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8136150019 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578947368421 0.468620217663 124% => OK
syllable_count: 559.8 705.55239521 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.3556924275 57.8364921388 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.8125 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.375 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.8125 5.70786347227 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.205250612193 0.218282227539 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0667947868424 0.0743258471296 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0385185147477 0.0701772020484 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105467121458 0.128457276422 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0537293067422 0.0628817314937 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.39 8.32208582834 113% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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