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 modern paleo diet, like all fad diets, has some basis in science, but picks and chooses, exaggerates, and misrepresents data to suit its needs. they promote all of the benefits without looking at or downplaying any of the negatives
Proponents of the diet like to claim our ancient ancestors knew something we didn't in choosing their diet. it is more likely that they were making do with what they had. it isn't like today where one can drive down to the supermarket and pick out any food one's heart desires. neolithic humans ate what they could literally get their hands on. food was scare in the Stone Age, and all the effort it took to bring down game back then meant that nothing was going to be wasted. So early man would use every single part of a kill. we today can afford to throw away bone and entrails, whereas our ancestors had to get every calorie they could out of an animal. if through some magic or science we brought a neolithic hominid to today, they would probably not choose to continue eating every part of the animal, instead opting for the more desirable cuts of meat simply because they provide more calories and generally taste better.
they make claims that bone broth has several healing powers, relating to joint health, help with brain activity, and cut down heart issues. Realistically, this would have little to do with diet and everything to do with early man's physical activity. our ancestor's didn't sit at a desk job for eight hours a day, they exhaustion hunted and performed hard manual labor. Supporters only have anecdotal evidence to back up these outlandish claim. There are however, concrete facts such; our ancestors being significantly shorter and living shorter less healthy lives then we currently do.
The placebo effect is also probably in full effect here. if you are eating a diet that is supposedly far more healthy for you, you will probably actually feel more vigorous. one must also not forget that by going on a diet one is making a conscious decision to monitor what they eat, and are thus much less likely to eat unhealthy foods.
While paleo does have some benefits, they are wildly exaggerated to the point of being lies. what is more likely happening is that dieters are now more conscious of they consume. Until dietian come out and say that we should live like our primitive ancestors, I'll personally be sticking with healthy varied diet afforded to use in these modern times.
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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: 10 15
No. of Words: 430 350
No. of Characters: 1974 1500
No. of Different Words: 239 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.554 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.591 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.296 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 118 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 84 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 43 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 25.124 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.364 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.692 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.163 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, look, so, then, thus, whereas, while, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
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Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 41.0 28.8173652695 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2021.0 2260.96107784 89% => OK
No of words: 426.0 441.139720559 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.7441314554 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54310108192 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.33700153752 2.78398813304 84% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 204.123752495 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586854460094 0.468620217663 125% => OK
syllable_count: 628.2 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 4.96107784431 242% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
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Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.0815706368 57.8364921388 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.05 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.2 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 19.0 5.25449101796 362% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
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: 0.201797638231 0.218282227539 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0566600135918 0.0743258471296 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0346590087834 0.0701772020484 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100996673674 0.128457276422 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0427489055089 0.0628817314937 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 14.3799401198 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.21 12.5979740519 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => 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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