Health, Wealth and Happiness

Too fat to fight? Many American children are so overweight from being fed french fries, pizza and other unhealthy foods at school lunchrooms that they cannot handle the physical rigors of being in the military, a group of retired officers say in a new report.

Thanks Yahoo and the military for the scoop.  No surprise, though.  This country is ready for a revolution, a FOOD revolution.  How about some more greens, some fresh vegetables and better yet, some vegetables grown within a hundred miles of our homes.

To say nothing of the almost elimination of all Physical Education in schools.  I am not a n expert, but I have heard that there is little PE left.  Kids don’t walk to school like we did.  I see the parents dropping off the kids in the SUVs and BMWs.  I would bet that a mile walk each way every day would do them, some good.

 

A friend of mine is 14 and lives about 3/4 of a mile from High School.  I said “you walk right?” and she turned up her little nose and said “Walk, and get all sweaty?”  (Ummm no, of course not, sorry I asked.)

Kids LOVE McDonalds, and I watch parents giving even babies Doritos and junky cookies, and candy.  Wow.

Kids these days would rather talk/text on their cell phones, or play video games than actually go on a  hike or go to the beach, or ride a bike, or heaven forbid, play a game of basketball or softball.  Not all kids, but a lot of them.

So apparently it will be even harder to field an all-volunteer armed forces with so many obese teens and young adults.

Our diets have to change before we ALL get Diabetes, and hit morbid obesity.  Just sayin’.