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 given argument is flawed due to numerous reasons. Primarily, the given argument is based only on the anecdotal evidence which suggests that following a diet which consists of bone broth lead to lower metabolic and inflammatory diseases. There is no actual medical evidence which indicates the same, leaving the argument invalid.
Argument fails to provide any justification about the similarities between lifestyles followed by people during ancient and current times. Health of an individual is dependent on a wide range of factors and not just the diet. For all we know, ancient humans might be leading extremely active lifestyles on a much cleaner and pollution free earth, causing them to be less susceptible to such diseases. Had the argument pointed out living conditions and lifestyles of human ancestors, even then the argument does not provide any evidence that ancient humans were not affected by such diseases.
The argument also leaves many unanswered questions. There is no evidence suggesting that ancient humans did not suffer from any chronic illnesses. It could be possible that people might be suffering from such diseases, but due to lack of medical knowledge in ancient times, there are no records about it.
Finally, as suggested in the argument itself, the ingested cartilage or chrondroitin cannot strengthen these components which are already present in our body. So, there is no suggestive evidence as to exactly why eating bone broth is useful.
Because the argument makes many unwarranted assumptions, it fails to make a connvincing case that following a paleo diet can cure many chronic illnesses.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 259 350
No. of Characters: 1343 1500
No. of Different Words: 152 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.012 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.185 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.704 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 104 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 87 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.923 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.529 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.385 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.368 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.628 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.091 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 307, Rule ID: A_MUCH_NN1[1]
Message: Maybe you should omit the article "a", leaving only 'much'.
Suggestion: much
... leading extremely active lifestyles on a much cleaner and pollution free earth, causi...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, if, so, then, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 55.5748502994 50% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1383.0 2260.96107784 61% => OK
No of words: 259.0 441.139720559 59% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33976833977 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.56307096286 88% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76351334494 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 204.123752495 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.586872586873 0.468620217663 125% => OK
syllable_count: 441.9 705.55239521 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.6759277082 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.384615385 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9230769231 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.70786347227 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.105979144086 0.218282227539 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0409193979273 0.0743258471296 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0434790971231 0.0701772020484 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0650713346501 0.128457276422 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0424767908704 0.0628817314937 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => 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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