The percentage of overweight children in western society has increased by almost 20% in the last ten years.
Discuss the causes and effects of this disturbing trend.
Nowadays, there’s a growing number of overweight children specifically, in the western society, in the last decade it had increased around a fifth. This essay will highlight and discuss the main causes of obesity and the resulting effects. There are several reasons for the high obesity rate amongst the youth. The most common through all the years is the excessive consumption of fast foods.
To begin with, obesity amongst children can be attributed into two factors; junk foods and lack of exercises. Studies have shown that the consumption of fast food has been linked to obesity in the recent years. These foods often includes unhealthy excessive fat products, salt and sugar. Since most families consist of working parents and due to their busy schedules, they turn to fast food for their kids, as this is because they are cheap to buy and easy to be prepared and above all, readily available for consumption. Secondly, the rapid technological development created an inactive and unhealthy physical lifestyle. They are screen addicts, children spend long hours watching TV, iPad, playing video games and anything virtual.
The mentioned causes have impacts on the well-being of children. The foremost effect witnessed is on the cardiovascular system (the heart), giving rise to aliment like increased and uncontrolled blood pressure, aneurysm and other related conditions, which leads to life threatening situations like heart attacks. To other repercussion is diabetes, which can lead to organ failure if there’s no drug compliance as there an everyday usage of medications must be needed. Furthermore, launching awareness campaigns in schools and social media financed by government, will raise people’s awareness on high risks of obesity among children.
Thus, to conclude the topic, it can be finally commented that consuming unhealthy diets like fast food and pre-prepared meals has a bad effect on the body system. So, we should make it a duty to be conscious with what the growing child eats and homemade food from natural resources will be of great help. However, if parents, teachers and the government make a concerted effort this problem can be tackled effectively.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, well, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1848.0 1615.20841683 114% => OK
No of words: 348.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31034482759 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7738087644 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 176.041082164 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.632183908046 0.561755894193 113% => OK
syllable_count: 554.4 506.74238477 109% => 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: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.4622850446 49.4020404114 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.705882353 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4705882353 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.11764705882 7.06120827912 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.129012253344 0.244688304435 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0410726058969 0.084324248473 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0526281714233 0.0667982634062 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0859606480761 0.151304729494 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0718315631356 0.056905535591 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.39 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 78.4519038076 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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