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, although stated some convincing facts, has a few things that seem fallacious like the argument assumes that the ancestral diet works for the current generation as well, the occupation and lifestyle of ancestors is similar to that of the current generation and also, it assumes that the ancestral people had no health problems due to their diet inspite of a paucity of an evidence of their well being.
The argument assumes that the diet followed by our ancestors some millions of years ago, will also work in today's situation. It fails to consider the fact that there have been a lot of changes on earth since then, like the industrial revolution and hence the increasing pollution, climatic changes, lifestyle changes and the evolution of humans since the ancestral times. Many new bacteria and viruses have been discovered since the ancestral times and hence the condition that was some million years ago will not be similar to that of the present condition.
The argument also posits that the digestive system of our ancestors works in the same way as ours. Although, the human anatomy has not changed since the ancestral period, there have been a myriad of changes in terms of life style and occupation. The ancestors occupation was hunting which is a laborious exercise, while in today's world, hunting is a rare hobby. With the advent of technology, people hardly get time to perform daily physical exercises and hence the lifestyle of today's generation is antithetical to that of ancestors. So, it is unlikely that our ancestor's diet will work in the current generation as well. Hence, this is a vital factor to evaluate the argument.
The argument also states that by emulating the diet of ancient humans we can cure many chronic illnesses but there is no evidence provided regarding the health of the ancient humans. The longevity of ancient humans is not known and we have no proof to state that the diet reduced the mortality rate among the ancient humans and hence, the assumption that we can cure illness by emulating this diet will be false. So, this is a significant factor in determining the validity of the argument.
Hence, the above stated assumptions needs to be reconsidered in order to evaluate the argument.
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e-rater score 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: 14 15
No. of Words: 379 350
No. of Characters: 1833 1500
No. of Different Words: 164 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.412 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.836 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.562 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 126 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 105 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.071 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 15.163 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.929 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.373 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.373 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 250, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'ancestors'' or 'ancestor's'?
Suggestion: ancestors'; ancestor's
...terms of life style and occupation. The ancestors occupation was hunting which is a labor...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, regarding, so, then, well, while, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1869.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 379.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.93139841689 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60856609388 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.45382585752 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 599.4 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => 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: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 89.7584058937 57.8364921388 155% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.5 119.503703932 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0714285714 23.324526521 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.07142857143 5.70786347227 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.0796898831786 0.218282227539 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0308009380986 0.0743258471296 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0272610158534 0.0701772020484 39% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0421268801134 0.128457276422 33% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0234644703341 0.0628817314937 37% => 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: 15.3 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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