Presentation to Elected Official Essay.

Posted: November 4th, 2022

Presentation to Elected Official Essay.

Dear School Board Member Jake Young,

I consider myself very fortunate to have grown into a healthy adult with normal body mass index measures, and not having experienced obesity as a child. Having this comfort is unfortunately a luxury that most other Americans do not get to enjoy due to nutritional shortcomings. Recently, I have become more concerned about the lack of attention for policy agendas to address childhood obesity, particularly at the school and community levels where the subject has often been circumvented in public discussions.

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My concern stems from the increased awareness that proactive preventive action is necessary to effectively address childhood obesity. As a proud member of this community, I am sure that you share my concern and would like to have programs implemented at the school level to address this subject. Presentation to Elected Official Essay.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2019) places the subject of childhood obesity into perspective by reporting that it affects 18.5% of American children and adolescents. It further adds that prevalence levels increase with advance in age. In this case, obesity prevalence is highest among adolescents between 12 and 19 years of age at 20.6%, with children between 6 and 11 years of age reporting prevalence at 18.4%, and children between 2 and 5 years of age reporting prevalence at 13.9%. Additional analysis of the statistics reveals ethnic influenceswith the highest incidence of the condition reported among children of Hispanic ethnicity at 25.8%, followed by non-Hispanic Blacks at 22.0%, non-Hispanic Whites at 14.1%, and non-Hispanic Asians at 11.0%. Subjecting the statistics to socioeconomic profiling reveals some worrying trends. Firstly, childhood obesity prevalence decreases with increasing level of education among the household members, particularly to heads of the households. This implies that heads of households with high education levels are more health conscious and able to make good food and health choices for the rest of the family. Secondly, incomes levels have implications for obesity prevalence with highest rates reported among middle income groups at 19.9%, followed by lowest income groups at 18.9% and highest income group at 10.9%. The implication is that socioeconomic status has an influence on obesity incidence among children and adolescents through limiting food and nutritional options (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019). Presentation to Elected Official Essay.

The statistics has shown that obesity prevalence among children has been enabled by ethnicity and socioeconomic status. These factors limit the nutritional options available to the children thereby creating opportunities for obesity. In fact, it is not surprising for children from low income families to eat a lot of fast foods that does not supply all the required nutrients in the right proportions and contributes to the body fat. It becomes clear that food and nutritional issues that children in high income families take for granted, are restricted to children from low and middle income families. Children from our community should be able to eat the foods that support their healthy growth with a focus on offering the right proportions of nutrient values and food amounts.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, is a nutritional assistance policy that addresses the mentioned concern. This is the largest nutrition assistance program that has implications for childhood obesity through feeding 40 million Americans every month. SNAP is funded by the federal government to the tune of $74 million annually, and is administered by the state governments (Everson, 2017). Each participant in the program is allocated approximately $4.29 every day and $128.57 every month to support healthy nutrition efforts. SNAP also includes an education component that facilitates partnerships between state mechanisms and USDA influence the program participants into making healthy food purchases (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2019).

I ask for your support towards implementing the education components of SNAP in the school, particularly the education component. In supporting the policy implement, it will guarantee that students have access to knowledge and tools that support them in preventing and addressing childhood obesity. It will ensure that children from the lowest and middle income families, who are enrolled in the school and are part of the community, are able to get the right nutrition. They will have access to the right nutrition, using funds from the program to eat the right foods with the required nutritional values and proportions. That is because childhood obesity is linked to family socioeconomics, and addressing this allows the children to improve BMI, stabilize the body shape index and hip index scores to achieve the best outcomes (Collins&Klerman, 2017).Please support the growth of the next generation of Americans as a healthy generation, by supporting the implementation of SNAP components in the school programs.

Thank you for your time and efforts to protect and serve the children enrolled in ________ school.

Sincerely,
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Dear School Board Member Jake Young,

I consider myself very fortunate to have grown into a healthy adult with normal body mass index measures, and not having experienced obesity as a child. Having this comfort is unfortunately a luxury that most other Americans do not get to enjoy due to nutritional shortcomings. Recently, I have become more concerned about the lack of attention for policy agendas to address childhood obesity, particularly at the school and community levels where the subject has often been circumvented in public discussions. My concern stems from the increased awareness that proactive preventive action is necessary to effectively address childhood obesity. As a proud member of this community, I am sure that you share my concern and would like to have programs implemented at the school level to address this subject. Presentation to Elected Official Essay.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2019) places the subject of childhood obesity into perspective by reporting that it affects 18.5% of American children and adolescents. It further adds that prevalence levels increase with advance in age. In this case, obesity prevalence is highest among adolescents between 12 and 19 years of age at 20.6%, with children between 6 and 11 years of age reporting prevalence at 18.4%, and children between 2 and 5 years of age reporting prevalence at 13.9%. Additional analysis of the statistics reveals ethnic influenceswith the highest incidence of the condition reported among children of Hispanic ethnicity at 25.8%, followed by non-Hispanic Blacks at 22.0%, non-Hispanic Whites at 14.1%, and non-Hispanic Asians at 11.0%. Subjecting the statistics to socioeconomic profiling reveals some worrying trends. Firstly, childhood obesity prevalence decreases with increasing level of education among the household members, particularly to heads of the households. This implies that heads of households with high education levels are more health conscious and able to make good food and health choices for the rest of the family. Secondly, incomes levels have implications for obesity prevalence with highest rates reported among middle income groups at 19.9%, followed by lowest income groups at 18.9% and highest income group at 10.9%. The implication is that socioeconomic status has an influence on obesity incidence among children and adolescents through limiting food and nutritional options (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019). Presentation to Elected Official Essay.

The statistics has shown that obesity prevalence among children has been enabled by ethnicity and socioeconomic status. These factors limit the nutritional options available to the children thereby creating opportunities for obesity. In fact, it is not surprising for children from low income families to eat a lot of fast foods that does not supply all the required nutrients in the right proportions and contributes to the body fat. It becomes clear that food and nutritional issues that children in high income families take for granted, are restricted to children from low and middle income families. Children from our community should be able to eat the foods that support their healthy growth with a focus on offering the right proportions of nutrient values and food amounts.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, is a nutritional assistance policy that addresses the mentioned concern. This is the largest nutrition assistance program that has implications for childhood obesity through feeding 40 million Americans every month. SNAP is funded by the federal government to the tune of $74 million annually, and is administered by the state governments (Everson, 2017). Each participant in the program is allocated approximately $4.29 every day and $128.57 every month to support healthy nutrition efforts. SNAP also includes an education component that facilitates partnerships between state mechanisms and USDA influence the program participants into making healthy food purchases (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2019). Presentation to Elected Official Essay.

I ask for your support towards implementing the education components of SNAP in the school, particularly the education component. In supporting the policy implement, it will guarantee that students have access to knowledge and tools that support them in preventing and addressing childhood obesity. It will ensure that children from the lowest and middle income families, who are enrolled in the school and are part of the community, are able to get the right nutrition. They will have access to the right nutrition, using funds from the program to eat the right foods with the required nutritional values and proportions. That is because childhood obesity is linked to family socioeconomics, and addressing this allows the children to improve BMI, stabilize the body shape index and hip index scores to achieve the best outcomes (Collins&Klerman, 2017).Please support the growth of the next generation of Americans as a healthy generation, by supporting the implementation of SNAP components in the school programs.

Thank you for your time and efforts to protect and serve the children enrolled in ________ school.

Presentation to Elected Official Essay.