Yet another reason to end the food stamp program.
My platoon at Parris Island had a recruit drop from 250 to 180 in 13 weeks. While the rest of us were on 5,000+ (IIRC) calories/day, he got perhaps 3,000.
Any Freeper nutritionist out there to chek my math?
Too fat and or too weak of character and mind.
Frankly, the article is full of pathetically passe’ cliches.
Too many candy bars? Hamburgers? TV? Where do these people have their heads? Are they oblivious to the technological inducements to indolence? Smart phones, etc?
Bike lanes? The state is already riddled with them and so the answer is more?
Nobody ate more candy bars or hamburgers than my generation. A fat teenager then was the exception and an object of ridicule. I met a friend the other night at the local pub and the youngsters were a bunch of porkers. Fat AND body ink? What a turnoff.
In retrospect, we were the golden ones.
(BTW, an enlistment bonus? Where was that concept fifty years ago?)
mrs WeWaWes works in the wellness/fitness/obesity/diabetes world and i get the facts daily and we have been in the midst of an epidemic for a long time. she recommends: “moderation, lean protein and fresh vegetables” as a bumper sticker diet. eliminate the bread, pasta and sugar.
Growing up in the 70s the only candy we got all year was what we collected on Halloween. It was so exciting going through our bags afterward to see what we got - and then everything had to be frozen for 24 hours before we could have a piece. Oh, and watch out for needles!
The Seventies were definitely a better time to be a kid...
“Young Chinese are ‘too fat and masturbate too much to pass army fitness tests’”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3580426/posts
They will also be impeded by the leftist anti-American indoctrination into communist/socialist ideology by the public school systems!
more bicycle lanes
"You need to make an investment in children in their younger years."
It's ironic to think that the school lunch program started because the military in WW II thought that American youth were under nourished, and wanted the lunch program to be sure that we had sufficient numbers of well nourished men to fight any future wars.
I guess that is one government program that succeeded a little too well. /sarc
Pork Chop Platoon.
The military is threatened with a lot more internal rot than being overweight.
What stoner states have fat people who knew.