Too fat to fight?

[MERMITE]

Once again the brass are whining about the state of those about to die for their country, it's been on and off since world war two, lets face it we live in a world where a guy sits in an office all day flying a predature, comes lunch time he dives around the corner for a big mac and fries, then back to his ROV for the next 10 hours, you really have to give credit to the ragheads even if they are fitter than him....read this with a cookie

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100420/...lunches_threat

[ShadowZ]

Yeah, but once your in the Mil your forced to have some sort of minimum fitness.

Most of the High schools I know of have P.E. as optional... as long as you take Marching Band or something "less intensive."

Colleges are pretty much in the same boat, only require 2 or 4 hours of P.E. classes and your done with it rest of your stay.

[Sen]

When I heard someone describe it as a "threat to national security", I nearly fell off my chair laughing.

[Bustin]

Originally Posted by Sen

When I heard someone describe it as a "threat to national security", I nearly fell off my chair laughing.

If you look at the average age of the military right now...and the percentage of people in that age bracket that are obese you would understand why they would call it a threat.

I see it everyday of my life working with kids boys 13-21. I'd say easily 70% of them are at the over weight borderline obese point.

[Sen]

I understand the validity of it, but it just came across to me as a hilarious way to describe it.

[Xx_jet_xX]

The problem is not the school food directly but indirectly. there are too many sanctions on making school food nutritious but none for making it taste good. where i work the school food meets all the standards for nutrition but the only students that eat it eat half of it and toss the rest, then once they have a ride to the nearest fast food place they buy from there instead. or if there are vending machines they will get something from one of those.

Another issue is allowing the lil $hits eat while in class, there are far too many teachers that allow them to snack while in class. this allows them to snack on whatever comes in a sealed bag a vending machine can spew out for 8 hours. between each class the kid stops at the machine and gets another bag of crap and proceeds to the next class.

The easiest way to fix school food to make it a factor is make that crap they call food taste as good or better than the local McD's and NO snack machines at all at the school. when i went to school we had 1 option for snack food, and only 3 times. that was from the one vendor during the 2 15 minute breaks and lunchtime. if the bell rang while you were in line... SOL.

School lunches are not the issue, its the availability of junk food that is.

[Guest001]

In Aus., no lollies at school canteens, only fresh or dried fruits, no white bread, pies etc.. .they can sell juices of all sorts, milk must be plain or with vitamin enhancement such as Milo or Ovaltine etc... A good start...

PS when I was a lad the Government suplied free fresh milk daily (though there is some questions now about cows moooooooooooooo

[Hellfighter]

have you heard the us-army new trainee's they will be call the steamroller's

a fire order come's down: call for fire! whats the target? a large group of people 30-40, right! near or away from you they be? away from us 1200m out! right sending fatround out to take them out!

near by hilltop large group of trucks show's up on top of the hill, tailgate drops down and 600lbs of body's rolling down the hill side and crash the the large group of people.

cost wise USD-20.00 each to take a target out! US-Army save billion in wasteful spending!

[Guest001]

Originally Posted by William

have you heard the us-army new trainee's they will be call the steamroller's

a fire order come's down: call for fire! whats the target? a large group of people 30-40, right! near or away from you they be? away from us 1200m out! right sending fatround out to take them out!

near by hilltop large group of trucks show's up on top of the hill, tailgate drops down and 600lbs of body's rolling down the hill side and crash the the large group of people.

cost wise USD-20.00 each to take a target out! US-Army save billion in wasteful spending!

I follow.

You mean?

Extra! Extra!...Hero saves town from rolling doughnut single handed.
or
Captain! Scanners indicate large amorphous targets round us. Sir, they're inside the ship!
or
Don't move...I can't.