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.
Over the last ten years, western societies have seen close to a 20% rise in the number of children who are overweight. This essay will discuss some reasons why this has occurred and examine the consequences of this worrying trend.
The main cause of this problem is poor diet. Over the last decade there has been a prolific increase in the number of fast food restaurants. For example, on nearly every high street there is a MacDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut. The food in these places has been proven to be very unhealthy, and much of the advertising is targeted at children, thus ensuring that they constitute the bulk of the customers of these establishments. However, it is not only due to eating out, but also the type of diet many children have at home. A lot of food consumed is processed food, especially with regards to ready-made meals which are a quick and easy option for parents who are working hard.
The effects of this have been and will continue to be very serious. Firstly, there has been a large increase in health related diseases amongst children, especially diabetes. This debilitating illness means a child has to be injected with insulin for the rest of their life. Not only this, very overweight children often experience bullying from other children, which may affect their mental health. The negative stigma of being overweight may also affect self-esteem.
To sum up, it is evident that there are several causes of obesity amongst children, and a variety of negative effects. Society must ensure steps are taken to prevent this problem from deteriorating further.
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'thus', 'as to', 'for example', 'to sum up']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.225490196078 0.247107183377 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.179738562092 0.155533422707 116% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0882352941176 0.0946595960268 93% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0653594771242 0.0501214627716 130% => OK
Pronouns: 0.016339869281 0.0437548338989 37% => OK
Prepositions: 0.104575163399 0.122226691241 86% => OK
Participles: 0.0686274509804 0.0403226058552 170% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.68373035696 2.80594681477 96% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0261437908497 0.0326793684256 80% => OK
Particles: 0.00653594771242 0.00163938923432 399% => OK
Determiners: 0.111111111111 0.0861772015684 129% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.016339869281 0.021408717616 76% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.016339869281 0.011925033212 137% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1617.0 1933.35771543 84% => OK
No of words: 272.0 316.048096192 86% => OK
Chars per words: 5.94485294118 6.12580529183 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06108636974 4.20517956788 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.330882352941 0.374742101984 88% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.264705882353 0.28420135186 93% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.180147058824 0.203846283523 88% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0919117647059 0.137316102897 67% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68373035696 2.80594681477 96% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 176.037074148 91% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588235294118 0.56093040696 105% => OK
Word variations: 61.9829409088 60.7387585426 102% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0891783567 93% => OK
Sentence length: 18.1333333333 20.7743622355 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.8802948086 49.517814964 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.8 127.492653851 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1333333333 20.7743622355 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.8 0.814263465372 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 44.6039215686 49.1944974215 91% => OK
Elegance: 1.525 1.69124875643 90% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.489215002291 0.332605444948 147% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0831856854184 0.102741220458 81% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0507270323679 0.0668466124924 76% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.505332824443 0.534860350844 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.124556407861 0.148594505496 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.182602578846 0.134430193775 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.114874682781 0.0742795772207 155% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.298427442644 0.324371583561 92% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0688981525328 0.0638462369009 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.326937519853 0.228012699653 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.12801743613 0.058150111329 220% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.68436873747 35% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.41683366733 59% => OK
Positive topic words: 2.0 5.90881763527 34% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 2.5751503006 233% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 1.9629258517 51% => OK
Total topic words: 9.0 10.4468937876 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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