Some countries are considering a tax on sugar in foods to help fight childhood obesity. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such a proposal.
A lot of countries are proposing to tax foods containing sugar. While it might be successful in addressing obesity issues, other fields could have suffered some consequences, such as the economic and cultural field. Countries considering on making such policy need to be able to face the repercussions that will rise.
If this recommendation was put into effect, it would change the eating habits of families, especially those with low to medium income. These households will be forced to limit their consumptions of products with sugar to keep their budgets in check. Instead, they will consume a larger proportion of whole foods, like fruits and vegetables. Also, children will not be able to buy chocolate and candies with only their allowances. Implementing this policy will mean that families will need to be able to adapt to this new situation where access on foods with sugar will be limited and therefore putting an end towards sugar dependency.
On the contrary, companies that produce foods containing sugar will suffer economically and in turns affect the nation's cultural influences. Many countries, such as France and Belgium, are known to be big producers of sugar and their economic balance rely mostly on the increasing demands for sugar. In addition, bakeries, confectionaries, and supermarkets, will not survive without the high demands for sugary goods. A significant decrease in demand might also mean that some factories and companies would need to lay off some workers which could send a rippling effect towards a nation's poverty balance.
In conclusion, although adding an additional tax to foods with sugar might help in combatting rising child obesity, other problems can occur. A country would need to choose between the future health of children or the longstanding economic and cultural balance.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 582, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'nations'' or 'nation's'?
Suggestion: nations'; nation's
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Line 7, column 25, Rule ID: ADD_AN_ADDITIONAL[1]
Message: This phrase might be redundant. Use simply 'adding a tax'.
Suggestion: adding a tax
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, so, therefore, while, in addition, in conclusion, such as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 7.85571142285 280% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1542.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 291.0 315.596192385 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.29896907216 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8330827278 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587628865979 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 466.2 506.74238477 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.2395033834 49.4020404114 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.142857143 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7857142857 20.7667163134 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06120827912 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.67935871743 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.181407261207 0.244688304435 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0697345763557 0.084324248473 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0706558479422 0.0667982634062 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132327915743 0.151304729494 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.064758721823 0.056905535591 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.0946893788 106% => 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: 13.46 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.35 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => 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: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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