The percentage of overweight children in western society has increased by almost 20% in the last 10 years.
Discuss the causes and effects of this disturbing trend
In the last decade, the number of obese children in western countries has been increased by 20%. This essay will discuss first, that the increase in the consumption of the junk food and reduction in physical activities are the main causes behind the obesity in children and secondly, due to these reasons, youngsters are facing health and mental issues; followed by a conclusion.
Most of the developed countries have a fast-paced lifestyle therefore, consumption of fast food is very popular. Adolescents can be found consuming junk food often, which makes them fat. Moreover, with the introduction of the latest video games, children prefer to play indoor rather than indulging in a physical sport. This is also contributing to their increased weight. For instance, a study done by Cambridge University on the obese children found out, 90% of them prefer to play video games over physical sport and the amount of junk food they consume is way too high as compared to a healthy child of their age.
Consequently, teenagers are being diagnosed with serious health issues like Diabetes, Cardiac issues etc. Junk food is highly processed food with a massive amount of sugar and oil in it, which brings obesity among children and hence health issues. Furthermore, obese children are usually low on confidence due to their appearance and this could lead to depression and other mental issues. For example, on analysing data of teenage patients, it has been found that 80% of children who were diagnosed with diabetes and 45% of children who were diagnosed with depression were overweight.
To recapitulate, this essay has illustrated that the increase in obesity among children is mainly due to eating fast food on a regular basis and inactive lifestyle. Furthermore, it brings a variety of health disorder in the early stage of life.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1539.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 301.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11295681063 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72089980877 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 176.041082164 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.53488372093 0.561755894193 95% => OK
syllable_count: 470.7 506.74238477 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.7736157843 49.4020404114 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.384615385 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1538461538 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.53846153846 7.06120827912 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => 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: 0.152835229707 0.244688304435 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0612047005739 0.084324248473 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0679963077605 0.0667982634062 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107907757073 0.151304729494 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0713719172386 0.056905535591 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.0946893788 108% => 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: 12.65 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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