Obesity a security threat

[Magda Hassan]

It must be hard enough being fat with out some generals looking at you for cannon fodder. Recruitment figures must be down and they're getting desperate. And its all the fat folks fault.

US youngsters are too fat to fight, warn generals


Former generals want Congress to act to give children better food in schools

Rising rates of obesity among young Americans could undermine the future of the US military, two retired generals have warned.
More than a quarter of young Americans are now too fat to fight, they said.
Writing in the Washington Post, the ex-commanders said the fat crisis ruled out more potential military service recruits than any other medical factor.
They want Congress to introduce laws to give US children better nutrition in schools, with less sugar, salt and fat.
John Shalikashvili and Hugh Shelton, both former chairmen of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote: "Obesity rates threaten the overall health of America and the future strength of our military."
"We consider this problem so serious from a national security perspective that we have joined more than 130 other retired generals, admirals and senior military leaders in calling on Congress to pass new child nutrition legislation," the commanders added.
The warning comes amid mounting fears that childhood obesity has turned into an "epidemic" affecting an astonishing one in three young American people.
Mr Shalikashvili and Mr Shelton pointed to post-school lunch laws from 1946, which recognised that poor nutrition reduced the pool of military recruits.
"We must act, as we did after World War II, to ensure that our children can one day defend our country, if need be."
Obesity rates in the US have surged over the last year, according to one report .
The Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found adult obesity rates rose in 23 of the 50 states, but fell in none.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8655651.stm

[Ed Jewett]

Send the Congress-critters, Senators, CEO's and all who support the continued nonsense.. with their robo-dogs to carry their MRE's and their Blackberry's ... and stacks of the fiat money they print downtown.

[Ed Jewett]

President Obama on Thursday, June 10, quietly announced a new Executive Order establishing the “National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council.”

According to the Executive Order that details the President’s “National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy,” the Council will be charged with carrying out ” lifestyle behavior modification” among American citizens that do not exhibit “healthy behavior.”

The President’s desired lifestyle behavior modifications detailed in Sec. 6 © focus on:

• smoking cessation;
  
• proper nutrition;
  
• appropriate exercise;
  
• mental health;
  
• behavioral health;
  
• sedentary behavior (see Sec. 3 [c]);
  
• substance-use disorder; and
  
• domestic violence screenings.
  

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-offi...lic-health

[Magda Hassan]

But there will be nothing done about the companies which don't exhibit 'healthy behaviour' and pollute the air we must breathe and foul all our water and provide unsafe and stressful work places for their employees. Nor will the state exhibit 'healthy behaviour' and make available universal free health care to provide health care for all these humans. Nor housing security nor food security. They'll still be supporting the extremely unhealthy industrial death industry.

[Keith Millea]

So what's the problem?You can be fat and still play the video game "Drone Attack:No Mercy".:ahhhhh: