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

Essay topics:

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.

It is undeniable true that the increasing about the proportion of obesity in young generation more than 10 years ago in western world. There are several factors, which have played a role in this. Also, there are a number of effects of being overweight.

On the one hand, one of the major factors that has contributed to an increase in children’s weight is junk food likes hamburger, french fries, etc. The number of children eating unhealthy food is on the rise, and the increasing number of fast food restaurants is responsible for that. These restaurants provide tasty food to attract children, but these foods contain unhealthy ingredients, such as fat and salt. This occurs because some advertisements encourage children to eat unhealthy meal. Lastly, children do not give time to outdoor activities because they spend more time in electronic devices like watching television or playing games on computers at home, which leads to a sedentary lifestyle. As a result of the above factors, children become overweight.

On the other hand, this then leaves children prone to many problems. They are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes, during their late age of life that led to various risk for their life. In addition, these children can be tortured at school by peers, which can have effects on their mental health like stress, anxiety and insomnia. These problems, in turn, often result in lower productivity at school. Furthermore, they are less likely to be selected for school sports teams because the selecting team might be concerned about their fitness.

In conclusion, factors like poor diet and sedentary lifestyles because of advances in technology have led to an increase in overweight children, and this may cause serious physiological and psychological problems to children´s health

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Average: 8.8 (10 votes)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, lastly, may, so, then, in addition, in conclusion, such as, as a result, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1564.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 298.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24832214765 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84681658493 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593959731544 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 474.3 506.74238477 94% => 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: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.9761264099 49.4020404114 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.266666667 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8666666667 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.86666666667 7.06120827912 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.15772238526 0.244688304435 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.061281250715 0.084324248473 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0464948073502 0.0667982634062 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112652984646 0.151304729494 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0435521059168 0.056905535591 77% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.0946893788 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 78.4519038076 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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