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 prompt supports the idea to take the hominid's food, Paleo diets in order to cure many chronic illnesses. Although the prompt is sound in its reasoning of the facts, however, certain logical flaws are implicited in the assumptions which are followed by seemingly enough clarifications here.
To begin with - the major part of the reasoning of the prompt in support of taking the Paleo diets is regarding the diets followed by our ancestors. The author assumes that as our ancestors were sound enough to have these diets and led better lives then it will do the same effect on us. But the author is missing certain points to take into account. It is much more evident to us, as by the virtue of modern science - is that human morphology as been changed drastically over the years since our evolution in mother earth. People of the very first era was much more sophisticated in terms of certain things that we are not now as well as much more insouciance regarding somethings that we are not readily now. Apart from that - their bodies had been evolved based on the surroundings they lived and based on the other foods available to them. Similarly, we are not of any exceptions. But the environment around us, foods avalaible to us and also the weather around us have changed drastically compared to that of our ancestors times. So, based on thess the demand of our bodies and the metabolism power of our physics, their food diets might not be as suitable for us as were for them. Who knows, the Paleo diets might not be the different one in this respect.
Coming to the second one - even though criticism from the skeptics, it is analogically derived that - as the ancestors who consume this Paleo diets; composed of bone broth had fewer inflammatory diseases compared. What if their prevention from those diseases was mainly helped not by the consumption of the diets but by their constant exposure to germs and bacterias. What if the ancestors were not owing their health benefits only to the diet but also to their accustomed to works that require high metabolistic power; ultimately suiting them better physical immunity. These cases might be the probable ones for which sufficent evidences have not been mentioned here in the prompt.
Also the fact that - the author assumed - our ancestors knew better than us in respect of our physiology and we might not. To accord this claim require simple reasoning. Our ancestors were about 100 to thousands years older than us. The environments as well as sciences were not developed enough in that time for the then people to do good ground works or research works on their morphology or physiology. Because of scarce of enough opportunitiesit might not be a good idea to assume that the had better understanding than us in the field of physiology, comapred to us; having available sources to conduct better research.
So, looking at all the aforementioned points and critical remarks, it might not be a better idea to come to any conclusion without sufficient evidences and facts; not properly mentioned in the passage. To come to any certain conclusion - enough scientific facts and evidences are mostly regarded.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 10 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 539 350
No. of Characters: 2566 1500
No. of Different Words: 243 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.818 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.761 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.602 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 167 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 121 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.435 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.831 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.652 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.29 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.492 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.184 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 42, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'hominids'' or 'hominid's'?
Suggestion: hominids'; hominid's
...he prompt supports the idea to take the hominids food, Paleo diets in order to cure many...
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Line 3, column 890, Rule ID: NOUN_AROUND_IT[1]
Message: Consider using 'the surrounding environment'?
Suggestion: the surrounding environment
...arly, we are not of any exceptions. But the environment around us, foods avalaible to us and also the wea...
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Line 3, column 948, Rule ID: NOUN_AROUND_IT[1]
Message: Consider using 'the surrounding weather'?
Suggestion: the surrounding weather
...ound us, foods avalaible to us and also the weather around us have changed drastically compared to th...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...t been mentioned here in the prompt. Also the fact that - the author assumed - ou...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, regarding, second, similarly, so, then, well, apart from, in conclusion, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 56.0 28.8173652695 194% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 77.0 55.5748502994 139% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2629.0 2260.96107784 116% => OK
No of words: 539.0 441.139720559 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87755102041 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81833721656 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66427024639 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 255.0 204.123752495 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.473098330241 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 814.5 705.55239521 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.0018368266 57.8364921388 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.304347826 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4347826087 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.86956521739 5.70786347227 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.157012909004 0.218282227539 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0474026770883 0.0743258471296 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0401615658903 0.0701772020484 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0783358465087 0.128457276422 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0508189460454 0.0628817314937 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 98.500998004 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => 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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