Two things we can do. Mandate a soda tax. And require more P.E. Maybe we should require two credits of P.E. in high school in order to graduate. In many states, you just need one semester to fulfill the requirement. Sometimes they teach health so you’re not always getting the exercise because you have to be in the classroom when you’re taking health.
These are just round figures.
There is a problem but the stats are not accurate. My son is “calculated” as obese in the Navy. He is 6’2” and 230 pounds. He needs a waiver because he is “not on the chart”. However, he has 10% bodyfat and can do their 1.5 mile run in just over 8 minutes.
When there is a hatch to lift, he is one of the only ones that can do it solo. He is an ox (with some speed too). So yes, he counts towards their overweight and obese.
Meanwhile, the vegetarians onboard cannot life a hatch without him (the girls can’t either) or properly man the ropes. Even though he has a “desk job” (AEGIS systems on a Destroyer), he is one of the fittest on his ship (even though “obese”.
Yes, there are huge fitness gaps (they stopped testing fitness during covid and they won’t sep anyone over fitness now because it “takes time”). But there are also measurement problems.
Obese, overweight, or trannies now make up Brandon’s military.
While I don’t dismiss the entire article, BMI is a horrible way to measure obesity. But measuring fat requires “maths” and that’s hard for a lot of folks.
The left will say the solution is for us to have a war to send our troops to burn off those calories. Oh wait, Ukraine needs help, what timing!
Ping.
Weight control is political, when the Korean war started all the troops in Japan sent over there, along with active, Reserve, and National Guard from the states got whipped into shape real quick in combat.
Not by Nifster’s standard.