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.
Many assumptions are required to argue that ancient humans knew something about our physiology that we do not and that by emulating the way they ate, we can cure many chronic illnesses.
Firstly, we have to assume that our physiology has not changed in terms of the way our body reacts to the Paleo diet. Hominids, as similar as they are to humans, can technically be considered a different species with a high chance of different physiology. Unless this proves true, we cannot firmly conclude that this diet has the same effect as they supposedly did for hominids.
Secondly, there has to be scientific evidence in the claim or research done according to the given argument to support these claims. Scientific evidence of the effects of the Paleo diets would highly impact the reliability of these claims. Without tested evidence on the effects of the aforementioned nutrients in the Paleo diets on the current human species, these statements are merely conjectures.
Thirdly, the anecdotal evidence relies heavily on the assumption that the people who claim that they suffer from fewer metabolic and inflammatory diseases due to their Paleo diets only differ from other humans based on the fact of their consumption of bone broth and absolutely no other factors whatsoever. If proven to be untrue, it shows that the effects may stem from other causes.
Fourthly, we have to assume that the reason for hominids to partake in the Paleo diet was for their complex understanding of their physiology. For example, if the reason for their consumption of bone broth was to conserve and save food that is less perishable, especially in winter seasons or famine, the argument that these hominids understand more about their physiology would prove to be false.
Fifthly, assuming that the evidence of bone broth prevents metabolic and inflammatory diseases are fact, that these less severe diseases are directly related to the chronic illnesses that can be cured by consuming the Paleo diet. If proven untrue, the claims that consuming Paleo diets do not cure any chronic illnesses.
Unless these assumptions can be proven, one way or another, to be fact, the claim that ancient humans knew something about our physiology that we do not and that by emulating the way they ate, we can cure many chronic illnesses would be evident as complete conjecture and fiction.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 391 350
No. of Characters: 1926 1500
No. of Different Words: 170 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.447 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.926 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.577 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 135 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 99 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.929 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.323 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.429 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.374 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.735 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.195 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 7 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, as for, as to, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 28.8173652695 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1999.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 391.0 441.139720559 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11253196931 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44676510885 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65247848261 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 204.123752495 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.447570332481 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 620.1 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.1533669752 57.8364921388 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.785714286 119.503703932 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.9285714286 23.324526521 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.35714285714 5.70786347227 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.176763542921 0.218282227539 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0670033957149 0.0743258471296 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0349666819903 0.0701772020484 50% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0885754670647 0.128457276422 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0262469535589 0.0628817314937 42% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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