The rise of convenience foods has helped people keep up with the speed of the modern lifestyle. What are the advantages of this trend? Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

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The rise of convenience foods has helped people keep up with the speed of the modern lifestyle. What are the advantages of this trend? Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

The emergence of convenience foods has brought about some advantages for people who have to cope with the fast pace of the modern life particularly in metropolitan cities. This essay will explain the advantages of this occurrence following by refuting the fact that this could have some outweighing disadvantages.

First of all, spending less time to prepare a meal, people who consume fast food experience more convenient situation. This consequently results in possessing more time to handle their hectic daily routines. As a salient example, in the United States there is an increasing trend towards comfort foods. This has occurred due to the fact that people are not able to save enough time for preparation of home-made meals. Further and even more importantly, though, ready-made foods have a significant variety which makes people of any social strata enjoy other nations’ special cuisines. This can also cause an acceptable diversity of various required nutrition in their diet. Chinese and Eastern Asian foods are prime examples of what people in western countries can opt to eat while it might be impossible to cook such meals at home.

On the other hand, some may contend that this types of food may cause ailments such as cardio vascular diseases or obesity problems. This can be refuted by the fact that not only are some healthy comfort foods available in the market, but also people ought to consider regular sports activities as their healthy pursuits to curb such difficulties. Some fast foods containing organic ingredients, for example, can be mentioned as a healthy diet for those who are struggling with such problems.

Over all, although some maintain that convenience foods have some demerits such as their health problems, it is restated that their merits including the fact that they are less time consuming and more diverse outweighs the disadvantages.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, if, may, so, while, for example, such as, first of all, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1590.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 304.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23026315789 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73556871945 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 176.041082164 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578947368421 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 490.5 506.74238477 97% => 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: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.4195969333 49.4020404114 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.307692308 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3846153846 20.7667163134 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.07692307692 7.06120827912 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210480154467 0.244688304435 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0770397532049 0.084324248473 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0525522291963 0.0667982634062 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137029336921 0.151304729494 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0796916764208 0.056905535591 140% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.0946893788 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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