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.
The given argument has several assumptions which makes it flawed. The main assumption that it makes is that, the food taken by our ancestors might also keep us healthier. The type of diet that worked two or three generations might not prove to be healthier for the current generation.
In today's world people are constantly running and hardly find any extra time. But the argument says that the soup is made from cooking animal bone for several hours which will prove time-consuming for many. Also the argument is vague on how to cook such soups.
The argument states that Paleo diets have many healthy benefits but doesn't support this claim with evidence. It is also does not specify the type of animal's bone that is required for this diet. For all that we know this required animal might have even gone extinct. New evidence might also rise showing that ingesting cartilage might impair our brains and hence proving the skeptics right.
The only evidence provided by the argument is said to be anecdotal and hence cannot be relied on. It is also not specified the type of people from which this evidence was collected as these people might have already been hale and healthy before they started consuming bone broth. The parting sentence again assumes that ancient humans and the current generation people do not differ.
Thus, the argument makes fallacious assumptions with lack of evidence supporting it. So further evidence is required to make a claim that Paleo diets are indeed healthy to the current generation of humanity.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 30 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 260 350
No. of Characters: 1254 1500
No. of Different Words: 146 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.016 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.823 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.32 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 81 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 63 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 41 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 20 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.333 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.147 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.338 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.591 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.093 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 172, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ancestors might also keep us healthier. The type of diet that worked two or three g...
^^^
Line 5, column 208, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...ich will prove time-consuming for many. Also the argument is vague on how to cook su...
^^^^
Line 9, column 69, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...eo diets have many healthy benefits but doesnt support this claim with evidence. It is...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, so, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 55.5748502994 36% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1293.0 2260.96107784 57% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 259.0 441.139720559 59% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99227799228 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.56307096286 88% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.33769675231 2.78398813304 84% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.468620217663 122% => OK
syllable_count: 397.8 705.55239521 56% => syllable counts are too short.
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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.473740973 57.8364921388 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 86.2 119.503703932 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2666666667 23.324526521 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.0 5.70786347227 35% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.183470028377 0.218282227539 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0630555678407 0.0743258471296 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0607364537029 0.0701772020484 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101015870855 0.128457276422 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0460015640903 0.0628817314937 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.3799401198 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.53 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 98.500998004 51% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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