Obesity was once considered a disease of adults; however, it is increasingly common among children. Why do you think this is happening? What can be done to help children stay healthy?
It is said that in the past children rarely suffered from obesity, whereas this health problem is now spreading amidst offspring. From my point of view, technology has provided people with a great variety of cheap, tasty and energy-dense fast food which has caused the spread of early obesity. Thus, I believe that promoting sports activities and healthy food is an effective way to tackle this problem.
Fast food, also called street food and if poor in nutrients can be also be called junk food, was not as popular as it is these days. More and more children would protest if they were not allowed to buy their favourite street food during the week. A recent report has brought to light that children in the UK consume three times as much fast food than during the 1990s. The reason for this trend lies in the fact that fast and junk food have become cheaper and tastier over the course of the time. Unfortunately, even though this type of food gives people pleasure because of its taste, its high content in fat and then calories leads to overweight and obesity, causing eventually aesthetic discomfort and various health problems.
If the government promotes healthy food and sports activities, early obesity will diminish. There is evidence that providing free and tasty vegetables in schools helps children appreciate salutary food alternatives. For instance, in Italy, the City of Bologna provided a number of students with sweet or savoury healthy food, together with sports activities. The results were outstanding, in fact, at the end of the year, a greater number of students than in the past were in the healthy weight range.
In conclusion, due to the compelling effect that junk food exerts on children, together with sedentary lifestyles, early obesity has increased. However, there is evidence that promoting a healthy diet and sports activities in school increases the number of children in the healthy weight range.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, so, then, thus, whereas, for instance, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => 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: 1625.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 322.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04658385093 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.542188678 2.80592935109 91% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.552795031056 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 481.5 506.74238477 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.7050340431 49.4020404114 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.071428571 106.682146367 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.71428571429 7.06120827912 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => 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: 0.148845977561 0.244688304435 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0588913973041 0.084324248473 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0425612287275 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104300065085 0.151304729494 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0446496159084 0.056905535591 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.0946893788 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 50.2224549098 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 78.4519038076 92% => 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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