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 author concludes that ancient humans knew something about our physiology that we don’t, and that by emulating the way they ate, we can cure many chronic disease. This conclusion is based on mainly two premises. First is that, the proponents claim that our bodies evolved to eat these types of food. Second, is that the anecdotal evidence that people who consume bone broth have fewer metabollic and inflammatory diseases than those who don’t. I shall suggest ways to improve the reasoning so that the argument has some validity.
First of all, the argument does not give any scientific evidence about the claim of the proponents. Proponents claim that our bodies have evolved to eat these types of food. There is no proper scientific evidence given for the statement of the proponents. If there was any scientific evidence about these types of food, the proponents claim would have been valid. So, this claim is flawed, because of lack of scientific evidence.
Second, the author has not given any scientific evidence about the bone broth. Proponents have claimed that bone broth has many health promoting nutrients, such as cartilage. There is also anectodal evidence that consumption of bone broth can reduce the chances of metabolic and inflammatory diseases. But, there is no scientific evidence about these statements made. Therefore, these statements can only be believed after a proper scientific evidence is there.
The author has also not given any scientific evidence for the ingested cartilages. Skeptics point out that ingested cartilage has a lot of demerits. This statement is believed on what the skeptics have said. If the skeptics have any scientific proof for this, then and only, this argument can be believed.
Hence, I conclude that the reasoning is flawed. I believe that the argument would vastly improme if there was scientific evidence for all the statements that were discussed in the argument.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 315 350
No. of Characters: 1570 1500
No. of Different Words: 138 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.213 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.984 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.581 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 102 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 85 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 72 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 15.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.105 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.353 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.57 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.12 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 124, Rule ID: MANY_NN_U[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun health seems to be uncountable; consider using: 'much health', 'a good deal of health'.
Suggestion: much health; a good deal of health
...onents have claimed that bone broth has many health promoting nutrients, such as cartilage....
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, second, so, then, therefore, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 25.0 55.5748502994 45% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1628.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 313.0 441.139720559 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20127795527 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63785570532 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.466453674121 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 514.8 705.55239521 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 22.8473053892 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.1820053928 57.8364921388 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 77.5238095238 119.503703932 65% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.9047619048 23.324526521 64% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.7619047619 5.70786347227 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.199087101944 0.218282227539 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0741100100637 0.0743258471296 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0977922209374 0.0701772020484 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114554863924 0.128457276422 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0662587675609 0.0628817314937 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 14.3799401198 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 48.3550499002 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 12.197005988 72% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.29 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.36 8.32208582834 88% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 98.500998004 61% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 11.1389221557 68% => 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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