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 statement that states, emulating the Paleo diets followed by human ancestors can cure many chronic illness is flawed. Because, it has assumptions regarding human anatomy evolution, location, climatic conditions and density of population that were considered to arrive at this evidence and partial knowledge of physical activities and other dietary supplements consumed by human ancestors. Therefore, all these factors need to considered before we can make the claim about emulating the way they ate to reduce chronic illnesses.
The humany body has continuously evolved from the time of our ancient ancestors to the current day. Hence, the diets that they followed during their time might not be relevant in the current day and age. The dietary requirements vary based on current day to day activities and way of life that we follow today. Presently, we have a lot of mechanical automation which was not the case in ancient times. Hence, gathering information of how much the human body has evolved along with day-to-day activities of ancient age can be very useful to strengthen the argument.
The climatic conditions of our ancestors and present day vary vastly. Global warming has caused increasing temperature year by year. The environmental conditions can also affect the diet that we are consuming. Therefore, the diet that gave increased metabolism may not have the same effect in the current environmental conditions. Hence, knowing the environmental conditions of living can be very useful to support the argument.
Did the ancestors have increased metabolism only due to the consumption of Paleo diets? The other aspects of diets on when they consumed the diet during the day, which could have caused this enhancement are not clearly stated. The complete view of their diet can provide a more accurate relation of the assumed cause and the effect of the cause. Thus, complete diet information on what and when they consumed is required to strengthen the argument.
Because, the argument makes assumptions around temporal similarity, location, environmental conditions, partial dietary consumption, it is flawed. The information of complete diet consumption, physical acitivites in day to day life and indicator of environmental conditions can be very useful to strengthen the argument.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 360 350
No. of Characters: 1899 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.356 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.275 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.862 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 140 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 117 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.947 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.295 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.421 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.334 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.568 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.126 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, if, may, regarding, so, then, therefore, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1952.0 2260.96107784 86% => OK
No of words: 360.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.42222222222 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93854755422 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.472222222222 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 623.7 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.9235785763 57.8364921388 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.736842105 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9473684211 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.05263157895 5.70786347227 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.131757840826 0.218282227539 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0488444112293 0.0743258471296 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0386892522457 0.0701772020484 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0752801005073 0.128457276422 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0367621459203 0.0628817314937 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.3799401198 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => 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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