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
Recent Harvard research has shown that childhood obesity increased by twenty-one percent in the past five years in the United States. This essay will discuss various factors explaining such a terrifying trend and it will cover possible long-term effects on the kids.
One of the major factors that has contributed to an increase in children's weight in the past couple of years is unhealthy food. The number of restaurants and vending machines offering often cheap, however, the less healthy options for meals and snacks are growing rapidly every day. These lead to daily temptation for the youngsters to forget about the balanced diet and go for an easy yet much more affordable choice. Another reason behind the obesity epidemic is the lack of physical activity in children's everyday life. With technology development in computers, phones, and PlayStation, a lot of young people face the addictive type of behavior when they are unable to put away their gadgets and go outside to play with their friends. Last but not least, the absence of proper education in healthy eating habits for children and their parents is coming to play as well because a lot of issues arise from the simple lack of knowledge.
As a result of all of this may children gain mind and body related problems. With developing obesity-related chronic diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart issues in later life, people simply lose several years to live. Moreover, extra weight affects the hormonal and chemical work of the brain which leads to depression, anxiety, and incapability of social interaction. All of this lowers the quality of life in general.
In conclusion, factors like poor diet, and sedentary lifestyles because of advances in technology and food availability led to an increase in the children's weight causing serious physiological and psychological problems to their health.
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- 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 84
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, moreover, so, well, in conclusion, in general, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 13.1623246493 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 24.0651302605 50% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1597.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 306.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21895424837 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72430657203 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 176.041082164 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.637254901961 0.561755894193 113% => OK
syllable_count: 486.9 506.74238477 96% => 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: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => 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: 49.9848497757 49.4020404114 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.846153846 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5384615385 20.7667163134 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.92307692308 7.06120827912 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.12337333262 0.244688304435 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0417944793031 0.084324248473 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0398379197605 0.0667982634062 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0758363428394 0.151304729494 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0272895472411 0.056905535591 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: 14.9 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: 13.29 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.16 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => 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: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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