Posts Tagged ‘national security’

The new weapon for peace on earth took some American ingenuity. Leave it to us, we can come up with some unique solutions to some very complex problem

The Standard American Diet Is The Solution

The standard American diet is the solution as long as we export it to all belligerent nations. That means no more embargo, instead the opposite approach is the solution to the world’s turmoil.  

We can’t send our processed food over fast enough. The proportion of young Americans that are too fat to fight or serve in the military is so high, that it is posing a treat to our security. This is according to a group of retired military leaders. 

Retired US army generals John M.Shalikashvili and Hugh Shelton, referred to different sources, including the US Army”s own analysis to national data that shows as of 2005, 27 percent of Americans aged 17 to 24 were too overweight to serve in the military. That was in 2005, when some 9 million young adults, were deemed too overweight to serve.

The leading medical reason recruits are rejected for military service in the US today is for being overweight or obese, wrote Shalikashvili and Shelton, both members of the executive advisory council of Mission Readiness, a non profit organization to retired senior military leaders. Also, a recent report from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research showed over the past 15 years the proportion of potential recruits who have not passed their physical exam because of weight has gone up nearly 70 percent.

Retired Navy Rear Adm. James Barnett Jr, a member of the officers group, said at a recent press conference held by Mission: Readiness, that national security in the year 2030 is “absolutely dependent” on reversing child obesity rates.

“When over a quarter of young adults are too fat to fight, we need to take notice,” said Barnett, according to a report by Associated Press.

The obesity problem doesn’t just affect recruitment, Mission: Readiness reports that the government spends tens of millions of dollars every year replacing military personnel that have to be discharged because of weight issues.

Sending Processed Food Overseas

Sending processed food overseas has to be less expensive than developing weapons of mass destruction. Also, the best part is once the people are addicted to the food, they will need us to keep supplying it. It would make sense for them not to destroy their source.

The other option is to implement don’t ask don’t tell where one’s weight is not taken. People can imply your overweight, but if you don’t mention this to anyone you can serve your country.