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 following argument is flawed for numerous reasons. There is no significant evidence provided by the author that deliniates how Paleo diets positively affects in human body. There are some other aspects that undermines the given argument, which needs to be discussed.
First of all, the claim of the proponents that our body is evolved to eat these types of food is completely deniable. Because, They are talking about our ancestors who lived almost thousands years ago used to consume these type of foods. They were habituated to eat such type of foods and such foods may have had positive effects to their bodies does not mean that they will work today. It is a well known fact that, human habit changes by time . So, we can't say that what worked then will work today.
The proponents also believe that the soup contains nutrients, but it is completely vague. Because, it is nowhere mentioned what nutrients the soup contains. Although, it is mentioned that the soup contains cartilage but there is no clear evidence that justifies the claims that cartilage helps in strengthening the bones.
The author also claims that consuming bone broth helps in fighting with inflammatory diseases but there is not a single evidence provided by the author that speaks for the claims.
Finally, It is completely incorrect to assume that our ancestors knew about human physiology. We must accept the fact that our ancestors were not educated and also they were uncivilized. So, we can't expect them to have knowledge of physiology that today's researchers are completely unaware of.
Because the argument makes several unwarranted assumptions, it fails to make convincing case that, paleo diets are helpful for human body.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 283 350
No. of Characters: 1401 1500
No. of Different Words: 152 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.102 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.951 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.527 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 89 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 72 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.688 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.282 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.688 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.314 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.63 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 119, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Because” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...e types of food is completely deniable. Because, They are talking about our ancestors w...
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Line 3, column 445, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...n fact that, human habit changes by time . So, we cant say that what worked then w...
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Line 3, column 455, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...t, human habit changes by time . So, we cant say that what worked then will work tod...
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Line 5, column 91, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Because” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... nutrients, but it is completely vague. Because, it is nowhere mentioned what nutrients...
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Line 9, column 195, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
... and also they were uncivilized. So, we cant expect them to have knowledge of physio...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, may, so, then, well, talking about, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 24.0 55.5748502994 43% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1444.0 2260.96107784 64% => OK
No of words: 283.0 441.139720559 64% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10247349823 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5932901379 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.554770318021 0.468620217663 118% => OK
syllable_count: 446.4 705.55239521 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.1104769573 57.8364921388 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.25 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6875 23.324526521 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.9375 5.70786347227 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.287489608791 0.218282227539 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0786317941749 0.0743258471296 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0694574324284 0.0701772020484 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114547898859 0.128457276422 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0530892028999 0.0628817314937 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.0 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 98.500998004 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => 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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