People eat more processed food than they did in the past, why is this and what are the effects of this?

Processed food is consumed more than it was. The reason is that the changing lifestyle has enabled us to have more options for meals than before and it usually provides better flavours than original ingredients. As a consequence, unbalanced diets and overdosing in salt, sugar or MSG are becoming major health problems in both present and future generations.

Due to the improved agricultural technique, food has been produced much more than it used to be. As a result, manufacturers need to preserve them longer which means extra processes have been added into the freshly harvested crops. For instance, salt is one of the most common extras which creates an unpleasant environment for preventing bacterial growth. Furthermore, it increases better tastes that make people consume more than needed.

Consuming too many extras worsens people’s health condition, which may cause potential chronical diseases such as hypertension or diabetes. In other word, chemicals contained in processed food are critical for our health have been widely used to make our food more delicious and people have a tendency to overeat it. For example, a recent study has shown the people has a 43% higher chance to develop a heart-related issue when their daily salt consumption is 5g more than recommended.

In conclusion, processed food should not be a problem because it helps farmers, industries and individuals to have almost every kind of food whenever in needs. However, having too much of it is the one principle factor which causes people ill and affects our healthy lifestyle.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, however, if, may, so, for example, for instance, in conclusion, kind of, such as, as a result

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 19.0 41.998997996 45% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1329.0 1615.20841683 82% => OK
No of words: 252.0 315.596192385 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27380952381 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98428260373 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84172149908 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 176.041082164 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.630952380952 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 407.7 506.74238477 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.8780022646 49.4020404114 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.75 106.682146367 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.83333333333 7.06120827912 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.196819358894 0.244688304435 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0857458284948 0.084324248473 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0726043599338 0.0667982634062 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126932994952 0.151304729494 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0229506619265 0.056905535591 40% => 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: 13.9 13.0946893788 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.38 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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More content wanted.

Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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