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 arguments involved several unwarranted assumptions, and two questions should be answered before coming to the conclusion.
First of all, the anecdotal evidence that only emphasized on eating bone broth is healthier does not represent the whole eating style of ancient people. For instance, our ancestors may not only consume bone broth, they may eat something else like potatoes, eggs or even vegetable. The evidence only explained the benefit of consuming bone broth, and it cannot be fully viewed as the total result of ancient eating style.
Second, the circumstance is different from past to now, and the argument should not threat it as same condition. To elaborate, the era of early hominids is far from now, and the living style have changed. For example, our ancestors may be strong and healthy, because they need to hunt for their own food. The result of healthy body might be the activities they did, not because the food they ate. However, modern people work in the office, and they only go for outdoor activities during day off. Maybe people are not healthy because they are too lazy to exercise. Based on the difference above-mentioned, the essential nutrients for modern people and ancestors may be different depends on their routine jobs, and there are huge gap in circumstances, and more evidence should be provided in the argument.
Comments
e-rater score report
No. of Words: 224 350
Minimum 250 words wanted
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Minimum four paragraphs wanted
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 224 350
No. of Characters: 1098 1500
No. of Different Words: 127 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.869 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.902 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.551 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 81 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 57 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 40 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 28 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.364 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.285 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.545 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.354 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.538 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.065 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 729, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'gaps'?
Suggestion: gaps
... their routine jobs, and there are huge gap in circumstances, and more evidence sho...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, second, so, for example, for instance, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 13.6137724551 7% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 55.5748502994 45% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1139.0 2260.96107784 50% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 224.0 441.139720559 51% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08482142857 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86867284054 4.56307096286 85% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66322613338 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 130.0 204.123752495 64% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.580357142857 0.468620217663 124% => OK
syllable_count: 357.3 705.55239521 51% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.67365269461 418% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => 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 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.7592965329 57.8364921388 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.545454545 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3636363636 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.90909090909 5.70786347227 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.15768463074 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210155357457 0.218282227539 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0804220635016 0.0743258471296 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0594939307251 0.0701772020484 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119919660591 0.128457276422 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0782416372276 0.0628817314937 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 98.500998004 54% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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