{"id":7039,"date":"2010-04-22T03:03:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T07:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=7039"},"modified":"2015-12-28T05:22:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T10:22:59","slug":"fat-epidemic-threat-to-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=7039","title":{"rendered":"Fat Epidemic Threat to National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong><\/strong>According to a group of retired admirals, generals, and other senior military leaders, about 27 percent of young adults are medically ineligible for the military service, <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2010\/HEALTH\/04\/20\/military.fat.fight\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN reports<\/a>.<br \/> The leading medical reason is being overweight or obese. The Army&#8217;s body fat limit for women in the 21-27 age range, with no prior service is 32 percent body fat and for males, 26 percent.<br \/> The officers, part of Mission: Readiness, urged Congress to pass a new childhood nutrition law to remove school junk food, improve nutritional standards and quality of school meals, and to open access to anti-obesity programs for children.<\/div>\n<p>Earlier this year, First Lady <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/a-sweet-life-staff\/in-the-news\/food-nutrition-in-the-news\/jessica-apple\/blogs\/food-nutrition-blogs\/thank-you-michelle-obama\/4737\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Obama <\/a>launched a campaign called <em>Let&#8217;s Move<\/em> &#8211; America\u2019s Move to Raise a Healthier Generation of Kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a group of retired admirals, generals, and other senior military leaders, about 27 percent of young adults are medically ineligible for the military service, CNN reports.<br \/>\nThe leading medical reason is being overweight or obese. 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