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

Over the last decade, there has been a considerable raise in the obesity among children in the western nations. This essay will discuss the main causes of this bothersome trend and its deteriorating effect on health.

Diet plays an important role in the weight of an individual. Recently, there has been an increase in consumption of Junk foods by kids. Most fast food joints use sell food of low quality and high caloric value. Advertisements play an important role in targeting young children being attracted towards these unhealthy food. For example, separate Kids Meal Combo are available at various food joints such as McDonald's and KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken). These companies sell the meal deals along with few toys. Kids, who are attracted towards these insist parents on buying such food frequently. Moreover, with the advent of smart gadgets, kids are so immersed in playing video games that they are reluctant to spend time in outdoor activity.

These unhealthy habits have become a cause of concern for increasing obesity-related health issues. Being overweight disturbs the various metabolic process of the body. Furthermore, there is raise in the incidence of Diabetes and Stroke in children. A recent survey conducted by Cambridge University regarding the causes of heart attacks in children, has suggested that about 5% of them are due to overweight.

To conclude, the principal cause for obesity is the type of nourishment consumed and raising health issues with increased weight gain are the proof for it. It is recommended to start a Government Funded Health Awareness programme for children each school and encouraging them towards a healthy lifestyle.

Votes
Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 182, Rule ID: IT_IS[7]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...ain causes of this bothersome trend and its deteriorating effect on health. Diet...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, if, moreover, regarding, so, for example, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 7.85571142285 13% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => 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: 1413.0 1615.20841683 87% => OK
No of words: 268.0 315.596192385 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2723880597 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77052427258 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.634328358209 0.561755894193 113% => 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: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => 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: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => 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: 33.683673252 49.4020404114 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.3125 106.682146367 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.75 20.7667163134 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.875 7.06120827912 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.174183709657 0.244688304435 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0542418831952 0.084324248473 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0629369974042 0.0667982634062 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131452745195 0.151304729494 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100520903813 0.056905535591 177% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.0946893788 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.99 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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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