Some people believe that everyone should be free to make their own lifestyle choices, even if those choices are unhealthy. Other people think that the government should intervene to influence people’s choices, for example by putting high taxes on unhealthy products.
Discuss both of these views and give your own opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Nowadays, more and more people are following unhealthy lifestyles and this problem leads to a negative influence on the society as a whole. Many people think that the government is responsible for solving this problem, while others disagree as it depends on personal choices. In this essay, I will discuss on both sides of this controversial debate and follow my point of view.
On the one hand, since the human rights have become more and more pronounced in every aspect of the modern societies, it represents freedom for people to make their own lifestyle choices. In addition, it is unwise to force people to adopt a healthy way of living if they are unwilling to do, as each person might have different interest and choices. For example, many people prefer indulging themselves in fast food or have an addiction to alcohol, as ways to relieve stress and satisfy their demand after a lot of strain. Therefore, it is up to each individual to make up his mind about the way he enjoys life.
On the other hand, various negative effects may stem from such unhealthy lifestyles. Firstly, many mental and physical problems may arise from these bad habits, for example, with the excessive use of alcohol drinking or the poor diet of convenience food, people may be inclined to obesity or inadequate development. Besides, the most alarming impact of the such lifestyles is possibly the adverse influence on other people in the community.
Turning to possible solutions, the government should take the initiative to ensure the health of their residents for various reasons. First and foremost, improving the health of the citizens eventually leads to a decrease in disease burden and healthcare-related expenditure. This money can be utilized by the authorities for other beneficial purposes like building infrastructure or children education, etc. Secondly, the government has the authority to increase taxes on unhealthy products, so that it will decrease the availability to the people and ultimately improve the health of the public. Moreover, the immediate step would be to promote a more active lifestyles which help to detoxify the lifestyles of the people affected. This could be done through the government sponsorship of sport events, which hopefully ameliorates the negative effects of the situation, for example, if sport champions or figureheads speak out these dangers, the message may somehow get through better to the community.
In conclusion, from my personal perspective, it is the joint responsibility of both the individual and the government. Everyone has his own rights to consume anything for his demand as long as it does not harm other people. Simultaneously, the government is also responsible for ensuring a healthier, disease-free community by encouraging the health benefits of more active pursuits.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, firstly, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 41.998997996 152% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2382.0 1615.20841683 147% => OK
No of words: 454.0 315.596192385 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24669603524 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61598047577 4.20363070211 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98073862196 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 176.041082164 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533039647577 0.561755894193 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 760.5 506.74238477 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.7996963785 49.4020404114 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.368421053 106.682146367 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8947368421 20.7667163134 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.78947368421 7.06120827912 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273950621396 0.244688304435 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0802010407007 0.084324248473 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0528650314397 0.0667982634062 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14102844604 0.151304729494 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0324461007145 0.056905535591 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.0946893788 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.12 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 78.4519038076 159% => 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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