Nowadays, teenagers seem to be suffering from a variety of eating disorders. On the one hand, obesity amongst the young is at record levels while at the same time, anorexia nervosa is becoming more and more common, sometimes with fatal results. Why have young people’s eating habits become so unbalanced? What could parents and teachers do to ensure young people have healthier diets? Support your opinion with examples and explanations.
The pace of life is such in our days that our lifestyles have become hectic, stressful and a persistent race against the clock. Nutrition, it would seem, is one area that has suffered as a result of this hustle and bustle of daily life, with teenagers becoming susceptible to eating disorders such as obesity or anorexia. The causes behind such disorders are not complicated to deduce, making solutions to these problems then become readily available.
To begin with, there are two main reasons why adolescents fall prey to eating disorders. The first is the pressure put on their time which forces them to grab a quick bite instead of allowing them to sit down to a home-made, healthier meal. Extra-curricular activities, mounds of assignments, and textbook pages to cover, pressure from their parents to achieve high grades in school all contribute to less time available to nourishing meals. Add to this the fact that parents are also chained to jobs which allow them little time to prepare nutritious lunches and dinners, and you end up with the perfect formula for obesity.
Another related cause of unhealthy eating has to do with the availability of fast food. This extremely tasty kind of food is present in almost every supermarket and diners selling it are found in practically all major cities and towns. How can anyone resist the delicious burgers, hotdogs, tacos, and pizzas that are effortlessly obtainable, speedily delivered, and in most cases reasonably priced? With so many additives and taste enhancers, teens are sure to get hooked and are bound to become overweight leading some to become anorexic in order to combat the extra pounds this type of food entails.
The final reason deals with anorexia and the images the media presents viewers with. Thin models prancing about in adverts or on catwalks and magazine covers promoting extremely lean, almost skeletal bodies push teens to compel themselves to look like the unattainable ideal image the media endorses, regardless if that body is dangerously thin.
To counterbalance all this, it is the job of teachers and parents to show youngsters the way. First off, parents should budget their time and have meals prepared beforehand so that their children can bring healthy, balanced lunches with them to school or, if they are not expected to be home by dinner, have home-cooked, ready-to-heat meals waiting for them in the fridge. This will ensure that children have no excuse to complain about having to spend time cooking for themselves on the one hand, while on the other a wholesome meal is guaranteed. Both parents and teachers should talk freely about body images, advertising gimmicks, the dangers of obesity, binge eating, and purging by sitting down with children or students and watching documentaries on the topic or striking up heart-to-heart conversations. School should even incorporate cooking lessons to demonstrate how just a few minutes of fun and creativity can give the nutrients you need to stay healthy, monitor your weight, and give you energy. Last but not least, teachers and parents ought to set a good example and eat healthily themselves, as no teen is likely to take an adult seriously when they see that adult doing the precise opposite of what they preach.
Taking everything into account, once the causes of obesity and anorexia and other eating disorders become clear, the ways to combat them also become evident. Teenagers must become aware of the dangers of eating unhealthy food or purging to stay thin or else they will have to face severe health issues later in life.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, so, then, while, as to, kind of, such as, as a result, in most cases, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 32.0 10.4138276553 307% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 24.0651302605 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 92.0 41.998997996 219% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 1.0 8.3376753507 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2990.0 1615.20841683 185% => OK
No of words: 593.0 315.596192385 188% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04215851602 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93473315629 4.20363070211 117% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65580930376 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 339.0 176.041082164 193% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571669477234 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 930.6 506.74238477 184% => 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: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 0.809619238477 741% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 20.2975951904 138% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 55.9440925979 49.4020404114 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.380952381 106.682146367 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.2380952381 20.7667163134 136% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.28571428571 7.06120827912 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38176352705 137% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.168925727871 0.244688304435 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0508994525935 0.084324248473 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0551532137265 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0883534603911 0.151304729494 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0489546294374 0.056905535591 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 13.0946893788 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 50.2224549098 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.21 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 157.0 78.4519038076 200% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.1190380762 130% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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