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 say's that paleo diets are becoming increasingly popular because our human ancestors used to eat that way and this diet helped them. This argument is flawed for various reasons.
Firstly, the argument assumes that it's just the diet which used to keep our ancestors healthy, there could be so many other factors such as physical activity by doing their own chores, preparing their own food, walking miles to get things, etc., But most of the population nowadays, aren't even doing their own chores and with all the tecnological advancements , people aren't even walking as they can even get their food delivered to their home. And assuming that just changing the diet pattern will make us all healthy is moot. I agree it helps our health to a certain level but not to an extent the arument proposes.
And the argument also states that there is strong anecdotal evidence that people who consume bone broth have fewer metabolic and inflammatory diseases than those who dont. So, how did they come to such a conclusion? In how many people have they observed that strong anecdotal evidence? If the sample size of number of people observed is very less, it cannot be made as statement that its true for everyone.
The argument finally comes to a conclusion that ancient humans knew something we don't so if we follow them we can also cure many chronic illnesses. we cannot conclude that just by emulating the way they ate we can cure illnesses, there must be so many other things the ancient humans have done in order to be healthy.
Also, the things which worked for people 10's or 100's of years ago may not work for the current generation as there are many factors to be considered like the atmosphere then and now, the region these ancient humans used to live and the region of the people following this diet now and may more factors such as other activities carried out by those people then and activites carried out by people now.
Thus, if all the above assumptions were made a bit more clear by explaining how they are making such assumptions, there is a chance that the argument might be true , till then , this argument remains flawed.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 379 350
No. of Characters: 1736 1500
No. of Different Words: 192 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.412 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.58 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.296 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 110 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 76 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 49 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 28 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 31.583 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 23.627 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.331 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.683 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.081 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, if, may, so, then, thus, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 28.8173652695 153% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 55.5748502994 52% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1793.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 376.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76861702128 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35280463931 2.78398813304 85% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526595744681 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 552.6 705.55239521 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => 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: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 120.594140594 57.8364921388 209% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 137.923076923 119.503703932 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.9230769231 23.324526521 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.23076923077 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.141412284138 0.218282227539 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0547388376998 0.0743258471296 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0473539798687 0.0701772020484 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.075695931431 0.128457276422 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0502308621316 0.0628817314937 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 48.3550499002 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.98 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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