The percentage of overweight children in western society has increased by almost 20% in the last 10 years.Discuss the causes and effects of this disturbing trend

Essay topics:

The percentage of overweight children in western society has increased by almost 20% in the last 10 years.

Discuss the causes and effects of this disturbing trend

Over the recent decade, a growing number of children have become obese. This essay will shed light on potential reasons for this trend including increasing consumption of fast food and sedentary lifestyle and also highlight some possible consequences including health risks.

To begin with, the obvious reason for the increasing rate of obese children is that they tend to take a large portion of unhealthy food in their daily diet. For instance, this food includes chips, pizza and soft-drinks having a high amount of calories, fat and sugar. Overeating of such food would undoubtedly increase one's weight. Moreover, children's lifestyle has becoming less these days. For example, watching televisions and playing video games for a long time have made them "couch potatoes". Thus, it has been seen that intake of fast food and sedentary activities are two minor causes of children's obesity.

In addition, there are some negative effects to children becoming overweight. First, children may catch chronic disease such as 'diabetes' which was used to be uncommonly found in the young age. Besides, it's treatment includes a certain injection everyday. Second, according to medical science, fat children paradoxically have a low immunity. For instance, they can be the first one's to catch cold or fever when the weather changes. Therefore, it goes without saying that gaining weight can lead to several health problems.

To recapitulate, this essay has illustrated that children's obesity is mainly due to their calorie-rich diet and inactive lifestyle. Furthermore, it brings a variety of health disorder in the early stage of their lives.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, furthermore, if, may, moreover, second, so, therefore, thus, for example, for instance, in addition, such as, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 41.998997996 64% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1395.0 1615.20841683 86% => OK
No of words: 258.0 315.596192385 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.40697674419 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79775432106 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.658914728682 0.561755894193 117% => OK
syllable_count: 423.9 506.74238477 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.9606526424 49.4020404114 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.1875 106.682146367 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.125 20.7667163134 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0625 7.06120827912 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.137735141998 0.244688304435 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0443398906231 0.084324248473 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0428750720196 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0815762272813 0.151304729494 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0215021537708 0.056905535591 38% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.8 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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