The percentage of overweight children in western society has increased by most 20% in the last ten years. Discuss the possible causes and effects of this disturbing trend and offer a solution.
Childhood obesity has reached an epidemic proportion in the previous decade, especially the Western world have risen considerably by over a fifth. It is also undoubtedly that this had negative consequences, some primary reasons will be presented as well as offer a measure to mitigate this issue.
There are a number of reasons for the rising levels of obesity among children. The first reason is unhealthy eating habits. This means that children currently tend to consume too much fast food, candy, and sugary beverages. This food can cause younger individuals to gain weight quickly since they are high in fat and calories but low in vitamins and minerals. Another reason is sedentary lifestyles, especially children in the metropolis. They prefer engaging in screen time activities to playing outsides or doing sports. My cousin, for instance, usually spends 4 to 5 hours per day to play the game online, watch TV or browse the Internet.
Obesity is a serious medical condition that has detrimental effects on children and adolescents. Firstly, obesity can harm nearly every system in the child’s body such as the heart, lungs, muscles, and bones. What’s worse, this can lead to overweight or obese into adulthood with an increased risk of a number of serious health conditions including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. Secondly, obesity among children might be more likely for psychological problems. These children had higher rates of loneliness, nervousness as well as depression comparing to non-obese youngsters. This is illustrated by a survey conducted by the University of Florida, it is reported that about a third of obesity children tend to have emotional disorders, and one out of five frequently bully their peers.
Additionally, it is necessary for parents to educate their children about the severe impacts of an imbalanced diet. This would lead to healthier choices such as choosing vegetables and whole food instead of junk food and soft drinks.
In conclusion, the increased ratio of obesity children in Western countries is the most pressing problem in recent years. There are various factors as well as adverse impacts on the child’s conditions and measures that can be implemented to tackle this issue.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, third, well, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1899.0 1615.20841683 118% => OK
No of words: 360.0 315.596192385 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.275 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81699948724 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 176.041082164 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.611111111111 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 583.2 506.74238477 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 5.43587174349 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.9937303473 49.4020404114 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.9473684211 106.682146367 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9473684211 20.7667163134 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06120827912 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.9879759519 301% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.150915225243 0.244688304435 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.044670927031 0.084324248473 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0365157386973 0.0667982634062 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0836797778089 0.151304729494 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0266260626151 0.056905535591 47% => 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: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.35 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 78.4519038076 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => 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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