Childhood obesity is becoming a serious problem in many countries Explain the main causes and effects of this problem and suggest some possible solutions

Nowadays, children of many countries are becoming obese and this in turn is becoming a serious worldwide issue. Major reasons, repercussions and solutions of childhood obesity are discussed in this essay.

Firstly, children often become obese and overweight during their childhood due to consumption of fast food and sugary soft drinks. These food habits proliferate the body fat percentage and lay the foundation of childhood obesity. For instance, according to a survey in North America, most obese children are introduced to fast foods like soft drinks, pizza and burger at early stages of their life. The issue aroused due to sedentary lifestyle of children as they mostly spend their spare time on video games and gadgets. In addition to this, children also prefer to remain indoors instead of involving themselves in any physical activity. Due to lack of physical exercise, children gain more weight which adds to their obesity.

When these children grow up, they become prone to diseases such as sugar and diabetes. Hence, measures should be taken by parents and authorities to curb growing population of obese children. For instance, parents should encourage their children to take up sports or group activities involving physical activities. Regular workout is also one of the numerous ways to attenuate this issue. Moreover, government can also discourage use of fast food and soft drinks by imposing additional taxes on them. Children should also be made aware of having a healthy diet in their schools.

To conclude, although, childhood obesity might seem a rapidly growing problem, effective measures can be taken to eradicate it from world. This requires concerned people to remain active most of the time.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 154, Rule ID: NEEDS_FIXED[1]
Message: "requires concerned" is only accepted in certain dialects. For something more widely acceptable, try 'concerning' or 'to be concerned'.
Suggestion: concerning; to be concerned
... eradicate it from world. This requires concerned people to remain active most of the tim...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, if, moreover, so, for instance, in addition, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1456.0 1615.20841683 90% => OK
No of words: 274.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31386861314 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63747183092 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.602189781022 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 455.4 506.74238477 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.8888851633 49.4020404114 52% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 91.0 106.682146367 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.125 20.7667163134 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0625 7.06120827912 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.153770652009 0.244688304435 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0547806113123 0.084324248473 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0663710170939 0.0667982634062 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129657938553 0.151304729494 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0880842972626 0.056905535591 155% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.22 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 78.4519038076 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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