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 makes some unwarranted assumptions like the emulation of ancient humans' diet being a cure to many chronic illnesses, ancient humans' knowledge about their body's physiology.
Fallacy 1 : Emulation of ancient humans' diet being a cure to many chronic illnesses:
This assumption is not justified. During prehistoric times, the very concept of society did not exist. Human beings were synonymous to that of wild animals. They were extremely ferocious and often feasted on wild animals to quench their ravenous appetite.
Due to evolution, humans developed the ability to collaborate,communicate and live together in harmony and respect the environment. The advent of science and technology changed the humankind as a whole. It created new problems such as air, water, soil pollution etc.
Hence,the environmental conditions underwent myriad changes from prehistoric times. As time progressed, the human body adapted to its ever-changing surroundings. Hence, emulating the diet of prehistoric humans would be a daunting task. The assumption could have been entrenched if there were any evidences of results from any research that backed up this claim.
Fallacy 2 : Ancient humans' knowledge about their body's physiology:
This assumption ,again, is not backed up with proper evidence. Ancient humans were great hunters but they were not known for their intelligence. They did not posses the scientific curiosity to examine something.
Their behaviour was synonymous to that of animals. The study of human body requires a modicum of scientific curiosity and discipline which the ancient humans were completely devoid of. As time progressed ,humans became aware of the surroundings and learned enamor the beauty of human body. This eventually lead to the various discoveries related to human physiology.
Hence, the argument makes some unwarranted assumptions.
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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: 22 15
No. of Words: 283 350
No. of Characters: 1540 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.102 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.442 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.835 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 119 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 95 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 12.864 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.146 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.273 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.278 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.616 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.054 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 9 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 139, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'humans'' or 'human's'?
Suggestion: humans'; human's
...cure to many chronic illnesses, ancient humans knowledge about their bodys physiology....
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Line 11, column 62, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , communicate
...ans developed the ability to collaborate,communicate and live together in harmony and respec...
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Line 15, column 6, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , the
...r, water, soil pollution etc. Hence,the environmental conditions underwent myri...
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Line 15, column 85, Rule ID: AS_TIME_PROGRESSED[1]
Message: Did you mean 'as time passed'?
Suggestion: As time passed
... myriad changes from prehistoric times. As time progressed, the human body adapted to its ever-cha...
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Line 17, column 21, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'humans'' or 'human's'?
Suggestion: humans'; human's
...ed up this claim. Fallacy 2 : Ancient humans knowledge about their bodys physiology:...
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Line 19, column 16, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...heir bodys physiology: This assumption ,again, is not backed up with proper evid...
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Line 23, column 186, Rule ID: AS_TIME_PROGRESSED[1]
Message: Did you mean 'as time passed'?
Suggestion: As time passed
...cient humans were completely devoid of. As time progressed ,humans became aware of the surrounding...
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Line 23, column 204, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...completely devoid of. As time progressed ,humans became aware of the surroundings ...
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Line 23, column 258, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to enamor'
Suggestion: to enamor
...e aware of the surroundings and learned enamor the beauty of human body. This eventual...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, if, so, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 12.9520958084 15% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1619.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 281.0 441.139720559 64% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.7615658363 5.12650576532 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09427095027 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09317488988 2.78398813304 111% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.580071174377 0.468620217663 124% => OK
syllable_count: 501.3 705.55239521 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 22.8473053892 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.2891746766 57.8364921388 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 80.95 119.503703932 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.05 23.324526521 60% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.35 5.70786347227 24% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 9.0 5.15768463074 174% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.103465563107 0.218282227539 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.033349159911 0.0743258471296 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0257145662537 0.0701772020484 37% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0473994138404 0.128457276422 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0271499893301 0.0628817314937 43% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 40.34 48.3550499002 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.54 12.5979740519 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.67 8.32208582834 116% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 98.500998004 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 11.1389221557 68% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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