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Matt McGee 5-1 milestone 3(draft) 11/27/2022 Dear Stakeholders, One of the largest burdens on the current healthcare system today is childhood obesity. This is not only a U.S. issues but it’s quickly becoming a global issue. Currently, childhood obesity will only increase with time if left alone. Currently the healthcare system is seeing the stress of childhood obesity but as these children enter adulthood the issue of childhood obesity will dramatically increase. The universal school meals act was initiated at the begging of the covid pandemic. This Act was needed at the time and is still needed by many with the expiration date quickly approaching. We are asking that you help us get this legislation extended indefinitely extending. As we discuss this we’ll start at the lowest level and work our way back out to the big picture. At the individual level this affects the school children the most, providing them with two meals a day. This legislation helps the lower income family that struggle to be able to provide healthy food options. In today’s economy healthy food is significantly more expensive then processed food that have a lower nutritional valve. The universal school meal Act will help

relieve this burden on the family and allow the children to have healthy food options for both breakfast and lunch. Moving up to the healthcare system level we’ll see that the universal school meals act helps teach children to eat healthy option that will decrease the level of childhood obesity. Childhood obesity is a problem that’s adding unnecessary stress onto the healthcare system. Childhood obesity adds stress on the healthcare system itself but also greatly affects the future of the healthcare system as children with childhood obesity often develop many other illnesses later in life. The impact of this regulation is much greater than the perceived benefit at the individual level and is changing the future of the healthcare system. Without it we risk childhood obesity and the related illnesses that long with it, overloading the current healthcare system. With the Universal School Meal Act expiring on 30 th June 2022, we are running out of time to renew this act or pass similar legislation. This policy was originally intended to help lower income families during the covid pandemic, but I think we all see the value in it. We need to at least extend the legislation to see if it continues to help with childhood obesity and reliefs some of the stress from the healthcare system. Many current models reflect that most of the stress on the current healthcare system is from preventable issues. With one of the fastest developing issues being childhood obesity we really need to get in front of it before the stress on the healthcare system is great. Which is why we kindly ask for your continued support while we work through approving new legislation to extend the Universal School meals Act.

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