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.
In recent times, obesity has risen dramatically among the young generation especially in western countries. In this essay, I will examine the reasons explaining this trend and give some possible repercussions.
There are several causes of this phenomenon. The most important one is the availability and affordability of processed meals. In fact, in every corner of the street, we can see appetizing fast-food meals designed for children. This food is high in calories, and if consumed regularly, leads to obesity. Another reason for this trend is the lack of exercise. A good illustration of this is that just a decade ago, children used to spend their past-time playing out with their mates, while now, due to the advent of technology, they spend their spare time sitting on their sofa with their eyes glued to their computer’s screen.
The effects of this trend have been and will remain serious. In fact, obesity can have a myriad of negative ramifications on the youngsters’ health. A particularly good example of this is a study from the Paediatric Health Institute that concluded that due to the rise of overweight children, obesity-related diseases such as asthma and pulmonary infections increased exponentially. In addition to this, obesity can lead to psychological problems like low self-esteem and social phobia.
The points that I have hitherto considered lead me to the conclusion that there are several factors such as fast-food and the sedentary lifestyle contributing to the rise of child obesity and this can lead to serious health issues and psychological disturbances. It is hoped that government of the affected countries put in motion drastic actions to prevent this problem from deteriorating further.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, so, while, in addition, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => 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: 1473.0 1615.20841683 91% => OK
No of words: 275.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35636363636 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14703270972 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.596363636364 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 454.5 506.74238477 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.6957687152 49.4020404114 149% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.214285714 106.682146367 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6428571429 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.5 7.06120827912 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
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: 0.159441313211 0.244688304435 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0618574776145 0.084324248473 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0500941476928 0.0667982634062 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0942142689772 0.151304729494 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0350940145224 0.056905535591 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.0946893788 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.29 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => 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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