Are School Lunches Weapons of Mass Destruction?-Overweight kids endanger military readiness

[RamboLiberal]

(AP) School lunches have been called many things, but a group of retired military officers is giving them a new label: national security threat.

That's not a reference to the mystery meat served up in the cafeteria line either. The retired officers are saying that school lunches have helped make the nation's young people so fat that fewer of them can meet the military's physical fitness standards, and recruitment is in jeopardy.

A new report being released Tuesday says more than 9 million young adults, or 27 percent of all Americans ages 17 to 24, are too overweight to join the military. Now, the officers are advocating for passage of a wide-ranging nutrition bill that aims to make the nation's school lunches healthier.

The officers' group, Mission: Readiness, was appearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday with Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

The military group acknowledges that other things keep young adults out of the armed services, such as a criminal record or the lack of a high school diploma. But weight problems that have worsened over the past 15 years are now the leading medical reason that recruits are rejected.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/20/health/main6413736.shtml?tag=stack

I wouldn't blame school lunches alone. Too many kids today are raised on a basic food group of pizza, burgers, chicken nuggets, frys, and soft drinks even at home not to mention snacks.

BTW an interesting blog by a teacher about school lunches in her school 2010. She decided to eat & blog about them every day in 2010. Yuck.

http://fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot.com/

[pipi_k]

1. Imagine world peace...

because people are too fat to fight.



hmmmmmm.....

[Kolesar]

3. The yanks they have the oddest plight

They're too dumb to rule
and they're too fat to fight

[Ozymanithrax]

2. No McDonalds and vending machine full of sweets are a threat to national security...

As a retired military serviceman, I strongly oppose the "lets let the little fuckers starve so they will be thin enough to die on command" plan.

[chill_wind]

4. Endangering the quality and supply of our disposable fodder for the war killing machine?

Can't have that!!!!!