Is advertising the main cause of unhealthy eating habits?
Nowadays critics have never stopped complaining about the side effects from the explosion of advertisements in modern society. Among these endless accusations, there is one controversial issue regarding the impact of advertising on people's unhealthy eating habits. In reality, compared with other sources of negative influences, advertising only plays a small role. The eating habits are formed on the basis of many complicated factors. Therefore, it is rash to consider it a major cause of those unhealthy eating habits.
To illustrate, one of the biggest contributors to unhealthy eating habits is the desire to lose weight. For fear of putting on weight, an increasing number of people have joined a shared mission to become slimmer. Such a prevailing trend nowadays has almost gone out of control. With the enrollment of more new comers, the troop is expanding all the time. Few people, especially young women, are willing to fall behind. A recent survey indicates that in China's major cities, 6 out of 10 adults are on a diet. The majority of them are taking in very little food every day. They intentionally stay away from any staple food and meat. Only fruit and vegetables make up their meals. Some of them are even eating nothing during supper time, but drinking water instead. Lack of nutrients regarding these eating habits is a biggest threat to human health.
Besides, eating habits are also associated with one's working style. A high pressured work schedule has deprived many white-collar workers of the time to enjoy a comfortable meal each week day. Early in the morning, they struggle out of bed, just in time to catch the bus to the office, not having enough time to eat a healthy breakfast. A short noon break only allows them to have a simple meal, which might include the unhealthy fast food like KFC, instant noodles or a box lunch. After a tiring day, few of them have enough energy to prepare a healthy supper at home. Thus, with the passing of time, such eating habits would definitely make people suffer from health problems. Some may be gaining too much weight, while others are becoming malnourished.
Admittedly, advertising is a possible channel that misleads people into bad eating habits. The masses may have access to numerous food advertisements while watching TV or browsing through newspapers and magazines. In order to establish a good image before the public and make the biggest profits, food producers or restaurants are exaggerating the quality of their products and services. Thus, a number of people, especially children, are attracted to buying more snacks or eating more junk food like McDonald's. These are all harmful to a person's healthy diet.
As a consequence, eating in a healthy way is of vital importance to a human body. It deserves focused attention from both the public and each individual. In spite of the difficulty in persuading people to give up bad habits, all the advertising companies should be encouraged to avoid sending misleading information that influences people negatively. Immediate efforts ought to be made to take precautions against any potential causes of unhealthy eating habits.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, if, may, regarding, so, therefore, thus, while, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.0286738351 36% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 43.0788530466 42% => OK
Preposition: 82.0 52.1666666667 157% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2648.0 1977.66487455 134% => OK
No of words: 519.0 407.700716846 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1021194605 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7730044521 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75329973168 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 294.0 212.727598566 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566473988439 0.524837075471 108% => OK
syllable_count: 829.8 618.680645161 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 9.0 3.08781362007 291% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 20.6003584229 155% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.8962608805 48.9658058833 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.75 100.406767564 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.21875 20.6045352989 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.46875 5.45110844103 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.85842293907 285% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.88709677419 225% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.29579994684 0.236089414692 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0686925785684 0.076458572812 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0808394925447 0.0737576698707 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175719206401 0.150856017488 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.088170038267 0.0645574589148 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 11.7677419355 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 58.1214874552 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.0 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.01818996416 108% => OK
difficult_words: 140.0 86.8835125448 161% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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