The percentage of overweight children in western society has increased by almost 20% in last ten years.
Discuss the causes and effects of this disturbing trend.
The number of children suffering from obesity has increased by an alarming proportion of 1/5th the previous number in the last decade in western countries. There are multiple factors contributing to this distressing fact and the effects of this trend among young children are really detrimental to their overall health.
One of the major reasons of this rise in weight gain in children is reduced physical activity. With the advent of modern day internet and online gaming, children are less interested in physical sports like football, cricket or basketball and would rather play video games on their computers. Parents also feel safer with their children being indoors playing physically harmless games on their consoles than playing outside in the open field with various dangers. Another cause of this upsetting trend is the nonchalant behavior of parents towards their children having junk food. The fact that junk food is easily available and much cheaper than fresh vegetables and fruits in the western world market makes it accessible and affordable to all the sections of society and leads to excessive weight gain in children.
All these dietary and physical routines leading to obesity have many deleterious effects on physical health of the youth. Obesity can lead to various diseases including diabetes, heart diseases, stomach issues and bone disorders. For example, according to a recent study the incidence of type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes has increased by about 10% among children and the major percentage of those children were overweight or obese according to their BMI. Similarly, heart diseases and death rate are on a rise among obese children. Along with physical health, mental health of these children also gets affected. Another recent study in Canada established that there was a direct relation between weight gain and major depressive disorders among children.
To conclude, increasing obesity among children in western society caused by poor diet and physical activity has only negative effects on growth and development of young children. Measures should be taken by parents, schools and governments to enact rules and ensure such an environment that promotes physical sports and healthy eating among young children to secure and protect their future and prosperity.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, really, similarly, so, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 10.4138276553 211% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 41.998997996 140% => OK
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: 1950.0 1615.20841683 121% => OK
No of words: 363.0 315.596192385 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37190082645 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55588895656 2.80592935109 91% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553719008264 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 591.3 506.74238477 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 5.43587174349 0% => 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: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.6743650179 49.4020404114 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.0 106.682146367 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2 20.7667163134 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 7.06120827912 42% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => 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: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.218667148344 0.244688304435 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0782904862108 0.084324248473 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0649684128156 0.0667982634062 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148118949506 0.151304729494 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0439289753125 0.056905535591 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 13.0946893788 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.18 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 78.4519038076 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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