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 is deeply flawed because it tries to correlate ancient humans with modern humans. The core logic of the argument is dependent on the assumption that chronic illnesses of ancient humans and modern humans can be cured using a common diet and doesn't account for hundreds of thousands of years of evolutionary change in the overall lifestyle of humans.
Althought the ancient humans did possess profound knowledge for curing certain kinds of illnesses, but the environment in which they were living was completely different than which the modern humans live in. Ancient humans had to face a wide range of difficulties in their day to day life which made them biologically stronger than modern humans. Modern humans which are much weaker than ancient ones can't imagine living in those conditions even for a day. Their bodies have gotten used to a certain level of comfort that is attained by modern technologies which have made their life easier but also kept them in a certain comfort zone that makes it difficult for them to develop biological and digestive strength that was possessed by ancient humans. Considering this, it might not be accurate to say that the benefits of paleo diets that ancient humans enjoyed can be emulated by modern humans too.
The author has mentioned an anecdotal evidence that the people who consume bone broth have fewer metabolic and inflammatory diseases than those who don’t. However, he hasn't mentioned the characteristics of the people who were studied to conclude this evidence as convincing. There is no age group or gender mentioned for which bone broth is beneficial. Usually, chronic illnesses are found in older people. The evidence might be based on a group of people with strong biological characteristics. So the given evidence might be rendered as futile.
In the past century, modern medical science has advanced leaps and bounds and has cured hundreds of chronic illnesses completely. There is no reason for modern humans to risk their health while trying to emulate ancient ways when there are a lot of proven medical ways to cure certain kinds of illnesses.
In conclusion, even if ancinet humans had profound knowledge of our physiology, its not logical to consider emulating their ways to cure chronic illnesses of modern humans. Evolution has changed humans as a whole and modern medical science has proven to be much more advanced and effective than ancient ways.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ns can be cured using a common diet and doesnt account for hundreds of thousands of ye...
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Line 2, column 171, Rule ID: RATHER_THEN[2]
Message: Did you mean 'different 'from''? 'Different than' is often considered colloquial style.
Suggestion: from
...ey were living was completely different than which the modern humans live in. Ancien...
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...which are much weaker than ancient ones cant imagine living in those conditions even...
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Line 3, column 167, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: hasn't
...eases than those who don’t. However, he hasnt mentioned the characteristics of the pe...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2034.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 400.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.085 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.472135955 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62312313855 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.49 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 639.9 705.55239521 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.3234168498 57.8364921388 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.647058824 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5294117647 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.82352941176 5.70786347227 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.12335627469 0.218282227539 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0448460863259 0.0743258471296 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0417799026931 0.0701772020484 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0632677706525 0.128457276422 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0344304119481 0.0628817314937 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 254, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ns can be cured using a common diet and doesnt account for hundreds of thousands of ye...
^^^^^^
Line 2, column 171, Rule ID: RATHER_THEN[2]
Message: Did you mean 'different 'from''? 'Different than' is often considered colloquial style.
Suggestion: from
...ey were living was completely different than which the modern humans live in. Ancien...
^^^^
Line 2, column 401, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...which are much weaker than ancient ones cant imagine living in those conditions even...
^^^^
Line 3, column 167, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: hasn't
...eases than those who don’t. However, he hasnt mentioned the characteristics of the pe...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2034.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 400.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.085 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.472135955 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62312313855 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.49 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 639.9 705.55239521 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.3234168498 57.8364921388 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.647058824 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5294117647 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.82352941176 5.70786347227 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.12335627469 0.218282227539 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0448460863259 0.0743258471296 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0417799026931 0.0701772020484 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0632677706525 0.128457276422 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0344304119481 0.0628817314937 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.