In many countries, traditional foods are being replaced by international fast foods. This is having a negative effect on both families and societies. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Traditional cooking is giving way to international convenient outlets in many nations. I am completely on board with the opinion that such trend engenders problems in families and societies.
The most obvious drawback of taking over traditional foods with international fast ones would be the poor health it brings to families. Convenience foods, such as burgers and chips, are high in calories, sodium and saturated fat, which are detrimental to people’s health and would lead to obesity. A growing body of studies reveal that people who regularly eat junk foods have a higher risk of suffering from obesity and some other diseases including hypertension and diabetes. So if such unhealthy diets are replacing traditional meals, higher chances are that more families would be undertaking serious healthy issues.
More serious problem would be given rise to societies when more international foods substitute traditional ones, namely the loss of tradition. When residents prepare and enjoy their traditional foods which embed their unique cultural characteristics, people are likely to develop a sense of cultural identity as well as belonging to their home country. However, such cultural inheritance would be missed out upon if their ancient ways of cooking are replaced by international ones. A recent study done by Peking university in China shows that 68% of Chinese young people nowadays prefer coffee to traditional tea, and only several among 500 interviewees are aware of their conventional procedures of drinking tea. Therefore, alone with the loss of traditional foods is the loss of a whole way of living.
Of course, this is not to say that international fast foods are always harmful. They are popular for reasons and the most vital one is the convenience they bring to family life. That is because in this highly competitive world, people are getting busier with work, and eating fast foods can save them some time. However, comparing with the negative effects to health and culture, the benefits of time saving could not be justified.
To conclude, a poor family health as well as a loss of tradition is linked to less traditional foods and more international fast foods. While some minor benefits are noticed, the overall effect is pessimistic.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, so, therefore, well, while, of course, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 13.1623246493 175% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => 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: 1915.0 1615.20841683 119% => OK
No of words: 363.0 315.596192385 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27548209366 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85145392522 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.564738292011 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 601.2 506.74238477 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.1310869031 49.4020404114 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.647058824 106.682146367 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3529411765 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.17647058824 7.06120827912 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.293028324573 0.244688304435 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0969769226069 0.084324248473 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.065761438285 0.0667982634062 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164877848195 0.151304729494 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0374289496873 0.056905535591 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 78.4519038076 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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