Many people have difficulty maintaining a healthy diet.
What are the causes of this problem? How could it be solved?
Write at least 250 words
These days many people struggle to eat healthy food consistently. A primary cause of this trend is the availability of cheap and quick dining options for people who don’t make time to prepare healthy food at home. For these people, the solution involves allocating more time for grocery shopping and cooking.
Many people have a poor diet because they don’t set aside the required time to eat healthier options. Without question, balancing work, school, family, and social activities can be very challenging. One way people deal with competing obligations is to cut corners whenever possible, but especially when it comes to food. Fast food and packaged microwaveable food are both easy to find and relatively inexpensive. Unfortunately, they also tend to be less healthy than foods cooked at home with fresh ingredients. Nevertheless, in order to save time, many people are willing to consume these unhealthy foods.
The only real solution to this problem is to set aside more time to shop for healthy food and prepare it at home. For some people, this may seem impossible. A working parent, for example, probably does not want to spend precious hours in the kitchen cooking when that time could be spent with the kids. With just a little bit of online research, however, this parent could find many healthy recipes that do not take a long time to prepare. For example, a simple pasta or rice dish with vegetables can be ready in 20-30 minutes, offering much more nutritional value than a hamburger and french fries. Alternatively, some people set aside time on the weekends to cook large batches of food that can be reheated during the week. With advanced planning like this, it should be possible to replace at least some unhealthy meals with home-cooked options on a regular basis.
To conclude, even though time is extremely limited for many people today, it is important to resist the temptation to take shortcuts in the kitchen. Healthy eating may require effort and planning, but prioritizing healthy eating is necessary to maintain good health.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, may, nevertheless, so, at least, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1743.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 342.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09649122807 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66708503182 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 176.041082164 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.581871345029 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 539.1 506.74238477 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.3063066411 49.4020404114 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.8333333333 106.682146367 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 20.7667163134 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.55555555556 7.06120827912 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222844688091 0.244688304435 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0730188178281 0.084324248473 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0442554530598 0.0667982634062 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137249474078 0.151304729494 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0192647542676 0.056905535591 34% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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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.