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.
Obesity has become one of pressing problem in this contemporary world. Overweight among children in particular has seen a rapid increase in last decade. The causes for increasing obesity are multiple ranging from technology advancements to eating life style of children. These have a devastating impact in short term as well as long term when left unattended. This essay will analyze the causes and consequent effects along with relevant examples.
First and foremost, one of primary causes for increasing child obesity is changing food habits of children. There is lot of impulse and binge eating among children caused by increased stress and change in dietary habits. Many opine that eating junk food is a method to combat stress re-sulting in losing focus of their health and weight.
In addition to erratic eating, technology advancements have done little to minimalize this trend. Having access to many gadgets and videogames , it have made kids lazier than ever. With little to no activity, lack of physical movement is second most contributing factor to increased obesi-ty among teenagers. To illustrate this, an Oxford study indicates that there is 25% increase in usage of gaming consoles among children <15 years of age in last 5 years . Thus it is conclu-sively clear that primary causes for increase in number of overweight children are lack of phys-ical activity stemming from technology dependency and also eating habits.
Children who are obese could face some serious physical and psychological problems. As they say sitting is the new smoking, increased fat and cholesterol in body leads to many hazardous health issues such as eating disorders , risk of being diabetic and many heart related issues. It is observed that 50% of children who are overweight are at risk of type-2 diabetes. The psycholog-ical problems include being fat shamed in a society and bullied at school creating mental pres-sure consequently giving rise to suicidal tendencies at this early age.
To sum it up, as child obesity is increasing at an alarming rate a whopping 20% in last ten years, the probable causes and effects such as inactivity and health issues have been discussed in this essay. The onus is on caretakers and parents to ensure children are fed healthy food and indulge in some sport so that this curve can be flattened.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, if, second, so, thus, well, in addition, in particular, in short, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 41.998997996 131% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1954.0 1615.20841683 121% => OK
No of words: 380.0 315.596192385 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14210526316 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41515443553 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72442016134 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 176.041082164 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.573684210526 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 617.4 506.74238477 122% => 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: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.63547124 49.4020404114 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.842105263 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.15789473684 7.06120827912 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.01903807615 139% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.9879759519 276% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.304228226363 0.244688304435 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0867307592235 0.084324248473 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0680249784839 0.0667982634062 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164075620439 0.151304729494 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0548091162641 0.056905535591 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.32 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 78.4519038076 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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