People are consuming more and more sugar-based drinks. Why? What can be done to reduce sugary drink consumption?
It is true that consumption of beverages containing sugar has been increasing in every part of the world. While several reasons can be attributed to this worrying trend, practical steps can be taken to mitigate the problem.
The greatest reason for rising intake of sugary drinks is their addictive and delicious taste. Sugar consumption can create a short-term high and a spark of energy in the body and the brain as it releases dopamine, a hormone attaches to pleasure. Some studies have suggested that sugar is as addictive as cocaine. Besides, soft drinks advertisements often target at children, who are not yet aware of health consequences and are easily swayed by the taste and the satisfaction these products bring. In addition, these kinds of beverages are ubiquitous. In the hectic life nowadays, people tend to consume packaged food and drinks, and sugar-sweetened beverages can easily be purchased at any convenient stores, supermarkets and even sold in combination with fast food to induce appetite, resulting in higher demand.
There are three measures that would be effective in tackling the rise in the popularity of sugary drinks. Firstly, governments should raise taxes on the sales of soft drinks. For example, France has imposed tax of €7.5 per hectolitre on drinks containing at least 1g of sugar per 100ml, and those containing more than 11g of sugar per 100ml, will be taxed at €20 per hectolitre. Secondly, vending machines should reduce the number of sugar-based drink bottles to help discourage the consumption of sugary drinks in schools, bus stations, cinemas and hospitals. Finally, health awareness campaigns on TV and the internet could help in combatting the promotion of soft drinks by marketing agencies, including the compulsory addition of health warnings on labels, as in the case of tobacco products.
In conclusion, although the addiction and tastiness of sugar has resulted in increased sales of sweetened drinks, effective measures can be taken to annihilate this issue.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, finally, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, while, at least, even so, for example, in addition, in conclusion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1697.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 322.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2701863354 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88098511426 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586956521739 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 520.2 506.74238477 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.4216936426 49.4020404114 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.214285714 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1428571429 7.06120827912 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More 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: 0.323082343876 0.244688304435 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0875873124769 0.084324248473 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0650778653722 0.0667982634062 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.165037092769 0.151304729494 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0583509292028 0.056905535591 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.0946893788 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.58 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 78.4519038076 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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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.