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.
To begin with, this argument is logically flawed in numerous ways. It puts forward the belief that an old, unjustified instance is likely to hold true in the modern world as well.
This argument is completely based on an assumption rather than a fact.
Firstly, the argument does not provide detail on what constitutes the paleo diet followed by early humans and instead provides the reader with only one example.
The bone broth being the only example provided, does not give the reader an elaborate idea on exactly what other dishes the paleo diets consist of. Had the author provided adequate information about the paleo diets, it would be easier to compare
paleo diets with other forms of diets.
In addition to this, the author's idea is completely dependant upon an assumption that is not backed up by any scientific evidence. The author states that proponents claim our bodies have evolved to consume paleo diets. This statement is not convincing as the author does not support it with any factual evidence. The author also provides examples of the many health-promoting benefits of paleo diets completely based on the belief of the proponents which is again supported by no form of evidence. If the author had backed up the statements with real scientific evidence, the arguments would be credible.
Lastly, the author concludes that ancient humans knew something about the human physiology that the current population is unaware of. The author bases this statement on unjustified anecdotal evidence and assumes that consuming paleo diets made early humans healthier then and will also cure the current population of many chronic illnesses.
Hence, this argument is severely flawed as proved above and cannot be agreed with unless provided with some actual evidence.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-15 | Advaidhaa Nagarajan | 50 | view |
| 2019-11-26 | Munia Ferdoushi | 66 | view |
| 2019-10-09 | the_akhilguntur | 54 | view |
| 2019-09-28 | Throax | 50 | view |
- 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 50
- Undergraduate students majoring in Business or in the Sciences should not be required to take any courses in the Humanities since those courses won t benefit their future careers Write a response to the prompt in which you discuss whether or not you agree 60
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 11, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Paleo
... diets, it would be easier to compare paleo diets with other forms of diets. I...
^^^^^
Line 15, column 26, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...of diets. In addition to this, the authors idea is completely dependant upon an as...
^^^^^^^
Line 19, column 268, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[3]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...paleo diets made early humans healthier then and will also cure the current populati...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, if, lastly, so, then, well, in addition, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 14.8657303371 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 33.0505617978 48% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 58.6224719101 61% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1512.0 2235.4752809 68% => OK
No of words: 289.0 442.535393258 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23183391003 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.55969084622 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55730177874 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 215.323595506 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.532871972318 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 472.5 704.065955056 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.2370786517 69% => 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: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.1986047232 60.3974514979 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.0 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6428571429 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.92857142857 5.21951772744 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 8.0 4.97078651685 161% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 10.2758426966 29% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.115712730124 0.243740707755 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0456760500517 0.0831039109588 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0574297853462 0.0758088955206 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0516025440906 0.150359130593 34% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0357803057824 0.0667264976115 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 100.480337079 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.