"Because people increasingly eat at restaurants, all restaurants should be required to display nutritional information about the meals they serve. This knowledge makes it easier for diners to make healthy choices and reduces the risk of diet-related health problems."
Write an essay in which you take a position on the statement above. In developing and supporting your viewpoint, consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true.
Many people nowadays go out to a restaurant to eat a meal several times per week. Many restaurants have considered displaying nutritional information about the meals they serve in order to make it easier to choose healthy choices and reduce the risk of diet-related health problems. Although it can prove helpful, it is not necessary to display such information about the meals at restaurants.
If people see the calorie count or ingredients in a particular food item before eating it, will this really stop them from ordering it? A person may think twice about what they are putting into their mouth, but at the end of the day, if the individual wants a cheeseburger, they will order the cheeseburger. The calorie content and the harmful ingredients inside may not be so important to each individual that walks into a restaurant. There is a common trend among restaurants in today’s society that will put your picture on a wall if you can finish their signature, and usually the biggest, food item on the menu. This further encourages people to eat too many calories and make unhealthy choices. The people that come into a restaurant like that, don’t necessarily care about the calorie content, they just want their face on the wall and bragging rights.
To figure out the fat and calorie content of each item of the menu at a restaurant will cost a lot of time and money. It would be more beneficial to use the money elsewhere in the restaurant, on a more pressing problem the business may be having. On the other hand, disclosing nutritional information to customers will not necessarily reduce the risk of diet-related health problems. Whether a food is nutritious or not, is not always a main concern for someone with diet related health problems, such as diabetes or obesity.
The only benefit to providing nutritional information to customers, would be to reduce the risk to exposure to allergens. Several individuals are allergic to common ingredients to many foods, such as nuts, soy, eggs, etc. Providing such information on what ingredients are included in a food item may prove beneficial in this way. To say that providing this information would benefit those with diet-related health problems, such as obesity, would be inconclusive.
In conclusion, the benefits of providing nutritional information on every item on the menu at a restaurant do not prove its worth. Individuals do not go to an ice cream shop to only stop themselves from eating it when they notice the calorie content. Those with obesity and diabetes often times eat very unhealthy to begin with, and may not care about the harmful ingredients. Overall, with the cost of providing such information, and with the majority of people who would not use this information to their advantage, it would be unwise to institute this change in restaurants.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 393, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'food'.
Suggestion: food
...f diet-related health problems. Whether a food is nutritious or not, is not always a m...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, really, so, in conclusion, such as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 74.0 58.6224719101 126% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2376.0 2235.4752809 106% => OK
No of words: 475.0 442.535393258 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00210526316 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66845742379 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90349755656 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456842105263 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 745.2 704.065955056 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.6086531927 60.3974514979 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 113.142857143 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.619047619 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.90476190476 5.21951772744 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.315398318181 0.243740707755 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0979735010495 0.0831039109588 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0826485924612 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.193657409058 0.150359130593 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.106016501554 0.0667264976115 159% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.1392134831 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.62 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 100.480337079 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.