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 argument presented by the author here is quite flawed.
It relies on apocryphal assumptions that may not hold merit when examined. There are three main assumptions that the argument relies on.
Firstly, the author tries to justify consumption of bone broth using the "anecdotal" evidence that people who consumed bone broth actually have experienced healing of cartilage joints. It contributes the healing solely to the consumption of bone broth and not to any other factors that could have influenced the people's health. Any factor could have influenced this "healing" effect that is observed in these people and since it cannot be proved in a manner that is veritably acceptable, this is a flawed assumption to base an argument on.
Secondly, the author posits that the ancient humans actually chose to consume bone broth in a consious effort to improve their health and actually had an archaic knowledge about the human physiology that encouraged them to do so. This is a highly optimistic assumption on the author's part. It is to be noted that ancient men had little to no medical skills and their eating habits were influenced by the environment that they resided in. It is possible that ancient hunters tended to salvage bones of animals and use them in any concoction that they used to consume. Hence it cannot be veritably that ancient men actually chose to consume bone broth due to their knowledge about human physiology
Thirdly, the author in the last line states that emulating the eating habits of ancient men actually will enable us to cure many chronic diseases. This is an assumption that does not hold merit as of now. As the diet is only exhorted by fanatics who follow the diet and there is no actual scientific evidence that proves it improves human health. Hence until a study or data analytical method can prove this statement by the author, it shall remain as yet another assumption made by the author to encourage espousing the Paleo diet.
Hence to for the author's claim to be proves true, further evidence is required. This could be offered by a study that monitors and examines the health of people that follow the diet. Only after such an effort offers its result to us can we truly know if the author's claims are indeed valid.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 387 350
No. of Characters: 1846 1500
No. of Different Words: 187 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.435 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.77 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.451 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 138 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 88 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 62 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.681 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.444 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.319 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.575 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.135 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 323, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'peoples'' or 'people's'?
Suggestion: peoples'; people's
... factors that could have influenced the peoples health. Any factor could have influence...
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Line 6, column 568, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...y concoction that they used to consume. Hence it cannot be veritably that ancient men...
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Line 8, column 348, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...e that proves it improves human health. Hence until a study or data analytical method...
^^^^^
Line 10, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... encourage espousing the Paleo diet. Hence to for the authors claim to be proves t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, hence, if, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 13.6137724551 154% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 28.8173652695 153% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1907.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 387.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92764857881 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43534841618 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68719439089 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.485788113695 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 604.8 705.55239521 86% => 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: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.3639436018 57.8364921388 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.176470588 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7647058824 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.88235294118 5.70786347227 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.132975091544 0.218282227539 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0414546046521 0.0743258471296 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.034595669567 0.0701772020484 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0551098158303 0.128457276422 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0442336774086 0.0628817314937 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => 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: 11.61 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => 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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