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 writer of the passage made several conclusions and declared many overaching statements based on unfounded assumptions. In making these generalizations that Paleo diets could cure many diseases for the present generation as it did for their ancestors, the passage has failed to identify some key points.
Firstly, the proponents stated that our bodies evolved to eat paleo diets due to the fact that they were eaten by our our ancestors and passed down through several dispensations to the current generation. However, there seems to be no viable proof to show this evolutionary trend. Perhaps, had there been some experimental analysis conducted and/or statistical demography to prove that these diets has impacted what we eat - such as bone broth - and the way we eat, then this could have provided some substance to the claim.
Also, the Skeptics' claim that there is an anectodal evidence indicating that consumption of bone broth had a positive impact on the health of people, cannot be adjudged to be outrightly convincing. For one, the source of this evidence has not been clearly stated. In addition, how this conclusion was arrived at seems to be vague if not non-existent. Even if these claims are found to be true, one still needs to consider other factors that may have influenced the healthiness of the previous generations when compared with the current generation. What is the degree of devastation of the kinds of diseases that people are exposed to in the present moment in relation to what obtained in the past? The rise of new diseases and infections in the present age, which may have been absent in the past, may have caused a resistance in the effect of Paleo diet consumers on people's health today.
Furthermore, the author's conclusion that eating the same Paleo diet now, as our ancestors used to, would ensure that chronic illnesses are cured may be hasty, when one compares how both generations lived. For instance, the author failed to state the kinds of work both generations engaged in, nor the kinds of environmental hardships they had to experience. If our ancestors did mainly less strainous jobs that required them working in safe environments, that could have explained why Paloe diets could effectively work in their bodies. Also, the genetic make up of both generations needs to be looked at. While it may be the case that our ancestors had strong genes that could easily fight diseases and bring the body back to normal upon ingestion of broths, that may not be the case with our generation.
In conclusion, while the author tried to give some reasons as to why emulating the way ancient humans ate would help cure chronic illnesses in the current generations, a lot of key assumptions need to be cleared before this conclusion can be perceived or accepted as valid.
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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: 17 15
No. of Words: 472 350
No. of Characters: 2288 1500
No. of Different Words: 238 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.661 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.847 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.663 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 111 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 84 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.765 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.178 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.765 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.307 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.546 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.079 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 115, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: our
...due to the fact that they were eaten by our our ancestors and passed down through sever...
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Line 13, column 18, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...les health today. Furthermore, the authors conclusion that eating the same Paleo d...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, look, may, so, still, then, while, as to, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 28.8173652695 135% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2353.0 2260.96107784 104% => OK
No of words: 471.0 441.139720559 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9957537155 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65859790218 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73078915182 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 248.0 204.123752495 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526539278132 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 724.5 705.55239521 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.9511912202 57.8364921388 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.411764706 119.503703932 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.7058823529 23.324526521 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.17647058824 5.70786347227 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.200389420035 0.218282227539 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0608578887396 0.0743258471296 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0569349764321 0.0701772020484 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109885160612 0.128457276422 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0709866320987 0.0628817314937 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 14.3799401198 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.3550499002 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.197005988 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 98.500998004 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => 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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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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