Urban areas are witnessing an increase in obesity among children. What are reasons? Suggest some solutions.
In recent years, rise in the number of overweight children has been noticed. The problem is clearly seen in the urban areas that children are putting weight at an early age which has large number of problems related to personal life and health. This essay provides the reasons behind increasing number of obese children and recommends the efforts required to curb this problem as well.
To begin with, there are several reasons contributing in widespread of obesity among young children but the most important one is lack of physical exercise. To explain, today due to urbanization the open space and playgrounds have vanished. So, there is no opportunity for children to play outside or outdoors. This leads to more children are inclined towards playing computer games and watching television that results in severe problems like obesity and diabetes. Yet another factor of shortage of outdoor activities is the prolonged working and study hours, as with the burden of heavy curriculum, children find it difficult to spare time for games or sports which intensify the problem. Moreover, poor food habits in this hectic life are culprit of inclining child obesity rates. For example, kids today prefer to eat fast food like burger, pizza and soft drinks. These are high in calorie and loaded with synthetic chemicals that have bad effect on health. Parents are giving such food due to lack of time.
However, to control this menace, little efforts from parents and government are needed. First of all, children must be provided enough time to play outdoors and parents must encourage children to participate in sports. Such activities are physically demanding and are healthy for growing children. Furthermore, children must be nourished with healthy diet and fast food consumption should be discouraged. Apart from this, government should provide adequate facilities to each city like sports club, parks, playgrounds so that children get opportunity to involve in healthy activities.
Overall, it is seen that the reasons for obesity lie in the life style of people. It is possible to control this effectively with combined efforts of people and government.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, so, well, apart from, for example, first of all, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 41.998997996 129% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1823.0 1615.20841683 113% => OK
No of words: 347.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25360230548 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61243921936 2.80592935109 93% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567723342939 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 557.1 506.74238477 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.5330964104 49.4020404114 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.9473684211 106.682146367 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2631578947 20.7667163134 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.78947368421 7.06120827912 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => 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: 0.18721885558 0.244688304435 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0546995712982 0.084324248473 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0499851505131 0.0667982634062 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11440141311 0.151304729494 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0516759087263 0.056905535591 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.0946893788 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 13.17 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 78.4519038076 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => 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: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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