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.
Though the above argument points out the popularity of the paleo diet along with anecdotal evidence of its benefits, it fails to present a strong case for the paleo diet as a long-forgotten cure for human ailments. The multiple faulty claims which lead up to the assertion, that emulating the paleo diet will cure many chronic illnesses, weakens it.
The argument begins with the claim that humans evolved to eat specific types of food, particularly foods such as bone broth. The implication, in distinguishing paleo from non-paleo foods, is that non-paleo foods are not ideal for humans or that humans have not similarly evolved to ingest them. This distinction further implies that human bodies stopped evolving to include different types of food after the paleo age. The fault with this claim is that it treats post-paleo humanity as if it exists only in contrast to the paleo age. It could very well be that human evolution has continuously changed bodies to adapt to different types of food over time. The paleo diet could be, if anything, out of date and no longer optimal for humans.
The argument for paleo further draws a misleading distinction between paleo and non-paleo foods. The example of bone broth is used to exemplify the paleo diet but it ignores the fact that bone broth is a very common food and ingredient in modern cuisines. Presumably, the difference is that other ingredients have been added in addition to bones but one must then accept that those other ingredients -- for example, vegetables -- carry their own health-promoting nutrients and are therefore even more advantageous for humans.
The argument also bases itself on the claim that those who consume bone broth have fewer metabolic and inflammatory diseases than those who do not. However, this claim presents itself without regarding for other factors that may influence individual health. It may be that those people who eat paleo diets have a family history that is less susceptible to metabolic and inflammatory diseases. That is to say, the ailments that bone broth is said to cure may not have developed in the paleo dieters in the first place. In order to support this argument, one should run an experiment, with a control group, to measure the effects of bone broth consumption on people who are, with a high degree of certainty, at risk of metabolic and inflammatory diseases. Without it, the claim lacks validity.
It may be that paleo dieters suffer less from diseases compared to non-paleo. It may be that humans have evolved to consume foods such as bone broth. However, without clearly reasoned distinctions and scientific experiment, the argument lacks support.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 441 350
No. of Characters: 2173 1500
No. of Different Words: 205 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.583 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.927 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.622 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 140 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 110 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.05 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.964 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.347 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.554 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.092 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 126, 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.
... particularly foods such as bone broth. The implication, in distinguishing paleo fr...
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Line 9, column 98, 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.
...tion between paleo and non-paleo foods. The example of bone broth is used to exempl...
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Line 13, column 665, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
...cts of bone broth consumption on people who are, with a high degree of certainty, at ri...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, regarding, similarly, so, then, therefore, well, for example, in addition, in contrast, such as, in contrast to, in the first place, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 13.6137724551 169% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 28.8173652695 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2241.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 441.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08163265306 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58257569496 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68428709809 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 204.123752495 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489795918367 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 693.0 705.55239521 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.22255489022 213% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.7686041451 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.05 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.05 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.15 5.70786347227 160% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => 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: 0.273743939623 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0962501582808 0.0743258471296 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0631645102625 0.0701772020484 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158087288431 0.128457276422 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0593063785551 0.0628817314937 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 98.500998004 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.