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 take into account several assumptions to conclude that paleo diets have healing properties. The argument is completely based on beliefs and lacks any experimental evidence which renders the conclusion made by it to be invalid. To maintain the legitimacy of it's claim there must be some research studies to support the benefits of the paleo diet with the correct control set up.
The other important assumption for the argument would be to assume that hominids and Homo sapiens are completely identical, which they are not. The two groups could differ in behaviour, anatomy and physiology. So, the diet would have absoluetly have a different effect in different species. Additionally, the pathogens that the current human species come in contact with are completely different from the ancient ones which used to infect the hominids. Therefore, the immunity that one needs to fight the infection would be completely different due to the fast evolving microbes.
The anecdotal evidence is also a major assumption for the argument. The study which provides this evidence could be very limited in terms of the number of subjects. It could also be representing a minute and homogenous fraction of a population. These subjects won't have any variation in terms of their food habits, occupation, physical activity and also their genetic material and thus the results would be totally biased. As the results of fewer metabolic and inflammatory diseases could just be due to good and healthy genes thereby providing them with good immune system or just because they don't experience the disease causing pathogens in their environment.
The stated argument fails to provide evidences and the assumptions that it considers is absurd.
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e-rater score report
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 280 350
No. of Characters: 1441 1500
No. of Different Words: 162 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.091 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.146 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.677 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 105 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.829 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.357 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.314 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.314 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.048 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 595, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...good immune system or just because they dont experience the disease causing pathogen...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, so, therefore, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 55.5748502994 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1464.0 2260.96107784 65% => OK
No of words: 278.0 441.139720559 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26618705036 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08329915638 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75456906661 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.58273381295 0.468620217663 124% => OK
syllable_count: 467.1 705.55239521 66% => 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: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => 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: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 47.0880633949 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.571428571 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8571428571 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.07142857143 5.70786347227 36% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
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 : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0997493249264 0.218282227539 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0354298099398 0.0743258471296 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0269386387239 0.0701772020484 38% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0548322129076 0.128457276422 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.038639413134 0.0628817314937 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 13.29 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.52 8.32208582834 114% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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