Americans Are Becoming Too Fat to Serve in the Army
The biggest threat to America's national security may not be nuclear weapons or terrorist organizations, but its citizens' unhealthy diets.
"Just under three in 10 young people [ages] 17 to 24 can join the Army today – and the other armed services for that matter – and the single biggest disqualifier is obesity," Major General Allen Batschelet of the U.S. Army Recruiting Command told CNN. "Ten percent of them are obese and unfit to the point that they can't join the service. It's really very worrisome."
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