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Obesity Epidemic Comes to an Army Near You

When even the military cannot be characterized as Spartan, what is there to say of broader society? US soldiers are going to extremes -- taking diet pills and laxatives, even starving themselves and getting liposuction -- in order to meet the military?s weight standards, the Army Times reported Monday. More than a third of uniformed men and women do not meet the Army?s weight standards, according to a 2009 military fitness report, and those officers are subjected to dreaded tape measurements to determine body fat percentage. A recent report explained that 25% are not even eligible to serve enlist to being out-of-shape and obese. The article, as is typical of modern America, makes the standards seem bad. If people are fat, it's only because the Army has the wrong definition...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on December 08, 2010 (boomark / email).