Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Childhood obesity becomes a military matter

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-parenting/post/childhood-obesity-becomes-a-military-matter/2012/09/24/2d832e9a-0683-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_blog.html


Childhood obesity becomes a military matter

"An interesting set of new childhood obesity fighters will march into the National Press Club today: military leaders.
Their mission is to engage the public on a new angle of an epidemic that is now largely seen as a health and parenting issue. They will argue that childhood obesity is a threat to national security.
“About 1 in 4 young American adults is now too overweight to join the military. Being overweight or obese is the number one medical reason why young adults cannot enlist,” begins a report that the group released this morning in anticipation of their press conference."

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