With a fast pace of modern life more and more people are turning towards fast food for their main meals.
Do you think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
It is true that an increasing number of people in today's society is prone to use fast food instead of home-cooked food. Whilst there are some possible reasons supporting the frequent use of fast food, I believe that fast food has its own drawbacks that we should take into account and that its benefits hardly outweigh these drawbacks.
On the one hand, there is a wide range of plausible explanations as to why fast food has increasingly become more popular. First, whilst fast food traditionally comprises unhealthy options such as burgers or fries, many modern fast foods also involve healthy choices. For example, some salads have low calories and a hamburger might offer only roughly 360 calories. Second, it usually takes some minutes to wait until a fast food is served. As such, you can save a wealth of time when having fast food compared to having main meals in sit-down locations or preparing meals at home. Third, fast foods could enable families to save money. Accordingly, a sandwich and a drink might cost only from $2-$3.
On the other hand, fast food has considerable disadvantages that people should consider beforehand. For instance, compared with home-cooked foods, food qualities of fast foods are seen as considerably lower. Indeed, quick service restaurants are prone to use frozen foods to save cooking time. The use of long-term storage allows these restaurants to keep their prices low, however, this limits the use of other alternatives such as fresh meats or organic vegetables. In addition, fast foods contain some ingredients that are addictive. For example, a combination of high salt and high fat foods and soda is highly palatable but encourages addiction in some individuals. These foods are likely to give rise to health problems due to its harmful ingredients. Furthermore, when a family goes to a quick service restaurant for the main meal, they would be unable to have enough time to catch up with each other due to the policies of these restaurants. Consequently, families only focus on eating their foods as fast as possible and leave before having enough time to build family relationships during meals.
In conclusion, while there are many convincing explanations as to why many citizens tend to choose fast foods instead of home-cooked foods for lunch or dinner, fast foods have its own serious disadvantages. As such, I believe that fast foods should only be consumed in moderation to maintain good health and develop strong bonds between family members.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 100, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to fast'
Suggestion: to fast
... as to why many citizens tend to choose fast foods instead of home-cooked foods for ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, consequently, first, furthermore, however, second, so, third, while, as to, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => 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: 2086.0 1615.20841683 129% => OK
No of words: 411.0 315.596192385 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07542579075 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73640910179 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 176.041082164 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54501216545 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 640.8 506.74238477 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.5987124286 49.4020404114 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.3 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.55 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.65 7.06120827912 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.303728207173 0.244688304435 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100756471676 0.084324248473 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0580624013932 0.0667982634062 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196974815238 0.151304729494 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0286355263219 0.056905535591 50% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => 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: 12.18 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.58950901804 96% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 78.4519038076 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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