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 with this opinion?
Research has proven that frequent consumption of fast food affects a person's health due to high quantity of sodium and saturated fats found in the food. As more and more people are consuming it due to hectic lifestyles and out of convenience, I agree with the idea that governments should tax fast food so as to discourage people from having it.
Needless to say, we are aware of the disadvantages that come along with a tray of Happy Meal or a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Despite many health warnings, people still choose to be ignorant about the consequences of consuming fast food. Heart diseases, severe obesity, and high blood pressure are some health problems that are commonly reported as a result of frequent eating of it. These health problems might have adverse effects on our daily lives. For instance, youths love to devour mouthful of french fries usually without conscious effort to ponder about the negative effects that come with it. An over consumption of it might reduce their productivity rate because high fat content foods make a person feels sleepy. It would also lead to lethargic behaviour and thus affecting their concentration in class. This might then result in a dip in their academic results. Furthermore, when a student becomes severely obese, they might be ostracised by their peers in school. Friends might bully or jeer at him, thus causing psychological damage. Thus, I feel that fast food should be discouraged by increasing its prices with a tax.
Next, discouraging the consumption of fast food by increasing its prices is also a good move because its existence might cause an erosion of local food cultures. Nowadays, young people feel that fast food is a trendy and hip place to dine with their friends. On the other hand, local foods would appear boring, dull and cheap. Due to preference, local food culture might be forgotten, or even rejected by the youths. This is an upsetting trend because youths might lose their cultural roots and identify more with a foreign culture. If this happens, how can a society retain its unique characters and heritage? This negative effect would definitely be considered detrimental by all governments because it would also dilute the people's sense of rootedness and belonging that are necessary for nation building. Hence, it is a sound idea for governments to jerk up the costs of fast food to discourage this.
In conclusion, I strongly agree with the notion of hiking up prices so as to deter the consumption of unhealthy food because it does not only affect our health, it might also affect our unique cultural foods.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, hence, if, so, still, then, thus, as to, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 7.85571142285 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 24.0651302605 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 59.0 41.998997996 140% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2175.0 1615.20841683 135% => OK
No of words: 439.0 315.596192385 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95444191344 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57737117129 4.20363070211 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64000561967 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 176.041082164 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.53986332574 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 662.4 506.74238477 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 5.43587174349 221% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => 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: 22.0 16.0721442886 137% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.3258125493 49.4020404114 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.8636363636 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9545454545 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.77272727273 7.06120827912 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 3.9879759519 326% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.2503918124 0.244688304435 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0764503582411 0.084324248473 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0558596261222 0.0667982634062 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159947610778 0.151304729494 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0584716673944 0.056905535591 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.0946893788 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 50.2224549098 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.4159519038 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 78.4519038076 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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