Nowadays, people have greater access to fast food.
Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
The world today is very fast paced and food is also following the same trend. There has been a significant rise in the popularity of fast food in recent times as more and more people have access to it every day. In this essay, I will outline some advantages and also discuss why I believe the disadvantages outweigh these.
As our lives have become very hectic and also expensive, fast food does present some benefits. First of all, it is very easy and quick to prepare which is very useful for people who are busy. While most of the fast food is unhealthy, there are a few nutritious options. People with busy lifestyles like doctors and lawyers do take advantage of these. Another perceived upside is its cost which is very affordable. So poor and less fortunate members of the community can have something to eat because indeed it’s better than sleeping hungry even if it’s not healthy.
Even though it has some benefits, the damage it has dealt to our health is enormous. Beginning with children, the younger generation has become very unhealthy because of its addiction to these fast foods. Kids are consuming such food on almost daily basis and this has led to rise in various health problems and the most significant is childhood obesity. A research last year concluded that almost 50% of the children in Europe were obese, while figures in USA were even higher. The other big downside is the increase in prevalence of chronic diseases in communities that have high fast food consumption. Among these, hypertension and diabetes were at the top. As if this wasn’t enough, scientist have hypothesized that fast food might also be an important factor in decrease in life expectancy in poor communities.
In conclusion, although fast food might present some advantages, they are minimal and replaceable. I believe the disadvantages are serious as it’s damaging the health of our children as well as adults and it is evident by the scientific research.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, so, well, while, in conclusion, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 13.1623246493 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 41.998997996 81% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1638.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 334.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90419161677 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27500489853 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63793354572 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.562874251497 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 523.8 506.74238477 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.4340383252 49.4020404114 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.0 106.682146367 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5555555556 20.7667163134 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.05555555556 7.06120827912 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => 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: 0.315984840547 0.244688304435 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.085209668306 0.084324248473 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0672433852317 0.0667982634062 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189804047774 0.151304729494 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0838695871398 0.056905535591 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.0946893788 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.4159519038 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => 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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