Nowadays, obesity is becoming a huge problem in many Western countries leading to an increase in cardiovascular complications, diabetes and other diseases. Among the causes the consumption of junk food and soft sweetened drinks is prominent, especially in the United States where more than 30 percent of the population is obese. In order to face this issue, some experts have suggested that government should introduce a higher tax on fast food. Although this way of acting could lead to some apparent benefits, I think that a deeper consciousness of the problem has to be reached.
Firstly, in doing so, politicians might limit the consumption of products from companies such as McDonald's, which would have to increase the prices of its meals in order to cope with the new financial imposition. For example, considering some previous healthcare policies of governments, tobacco taxes have surely limited the use of cigarettes reducing the risks associated to smoking.
However, I think that social factors connected to the availability of food and obesity have to be discussed. In fact, a careful analysis of the phenomenon in US reveals that healthy meals are much more expensive than unhealthy ones. This means that fruit and vegetables are affordable for rich people but for whoever has a lower income is not the same. The poor in America do not prefer to eat hamburgers and chips but they simply need them.
To conclude, I partially agree with what is said by the experts since the larger financial strain proposed may be helpful only for a certain class of the population. Instead, adopting policies of regulation on food quality and laws promoting a lower cost of healthy food seems to me a better solution.
- In some countries, an increasing number of people are suffering from health problems as a result of eating too much fast food. It is, therefore, necessary for governments to impose a higher tax on this kind of food.To what extent do you agree or disagree 78
- The charts below show the reasons why people travel to work by bicycle or by car.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. 73
- Research indicates that the characteristics we are born with have much more influence on our personality and development than any experiences we may have on our life.Which do you consider to be the major influence? 84
- The graph below shows the pollution levels in London between 1600 and 2000. 84
- The table below gives information about languages with the most native speakers.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. 73
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 97, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tern countries leading to an increase in cardiovascular complications, diabetes a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, may, so, as to, for example, i think, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 7.0 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 1.00243902439 599% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 6.8 118% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 3.15609756098 222% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 16.0 5.60731707317 285% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 33.7804878049 127% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 3.97073170732 201% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1440.0 965.302439024 149% => OK
No of words: 284.0 196.424390244 145% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07042253521 4.92477711251 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 3.73543355544 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84442539055 2.65546596893 107% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 106.607317073 169% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.633802816901 0.547539520022 116% => OK
syllable_count: 450.9 283.868780488 159% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.45097560976 110% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 1.53170731707 261% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.33902439024 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 3.36585365854 178% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 8.94146341463 134% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.4926829268 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.1162724352 43.030603864 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.0 112.824112599 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6666666667 22.9334400587 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.23603664747 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 3.70975609756 162% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 1.13902439024 351% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.09268292683 49% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.23934969826 0.215688989381 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0736920830734 0.103423049105 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0463035045882 0.0843802449381 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122711501292 0.15604864568 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0394591308079 0.0819641961636 48% => 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: 14.3 13.2329268293 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 61.2550243902 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.3012195122 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 11.4140731707 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.06136585366 116% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 40.7170731707 201% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.9970731707 102% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => 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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