Comments on: Too Fat to Serve: How Our Unhealthy Food System Is Undermining the Military http://civileats.com/2009/12/16/too-fat-to-serve-how-our-unhealthy-food-system-is-undermining-the-military/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 24 May 2012 16:03:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Unhealthy Food System Makes 1/3 of Eligible Recruits Too Fat To Serve in the Military | Latros.Com http://civileats.com/2009/12/16/too-fat-to-serve-how-our-unhealthy-food-system-is-undermining-the-military/comment-page-1/#comment-4919 Unhealthy Food System Makes 1/3 of Eligible Recruits Too Fat To Serve in the Military | Latros.Com Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:48:13 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=5834#comment-4919 [...] weigh us down. No pun intended. But a new study done by the non-profit Mission: Readiness found on Civil Eats, that 1/3 of young people are unfit to serve because of weight. Frightening statistics in a time [...] [...] weigh us down. No pun intended. But a new study done by the non-profit Mission: Readiness found on Civil Eats, that 1/3 of young people are unfit to serve because of weight. Frightening statistics in a time [...]

]]> By: Unhealthy Food System Makes 1/3 of Eligible Recruits Too Fat To Serve in the Military - Treadmills http://civileats.com/2009/12/16/too-fat-to-serve-how-our-unhealthy-food-system-is-undermining-the-military/comment-page-1/#comment-4917 Unhealthy Food System Makes 1/3 of Eligible Recruits Too Fat To Serve in the Military - Treadmills Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:44:13 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=5834#comment-4917 [...] weigh us down. No pun intended. But a new study done by the non-profit Mission: Readiness found on Civil Eats, that 1/3 of young people are unfit to serve because of weight. Frightening statistics in a time [...] [...] weigh us down. No pun intended. But a new study done by the non-profit Mission: Readiness found on Civil Eats, that 1/3 of young people are unfit to serve because of weight. Frightening statistics in a time [...]

]]> By: Unhealthy Food System Makes 1/3 of Eligible Recruits Too Fat To Serve in the Military : Green Resouces http://civileats.com/2009/12/16/too-fat-to-serve-how-our-unhealthy-food-system-is-undermining-the-military/comment-page-1/#comment-4915 Unhealthy Food System Makes 1/3 of Eligible Recruits Too Fat To Serve in the Military : Green Resouces Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:16:51 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=5834#comment-4915 [...] weigh us down. No pun intended. But a new study done by the non-profit Mission: Readiness found on Civil Eats, that 1/3 of young people are unfit to serve because of weight. Frightening statistics in a time [...] [...] weigh us down. No pun intended. But a new study done by the non-profit Mission: Readiness found on Civil Eats, that 1/3 of young people are unfit to serve because of weight. Frightening statistics in a time [...]

]]> By: Unhealthy Food System Makes 1/3 of Eligible Recruits Too Fat To Serve in the Military « http://civileats.com/2009/12/16/too-fat-to-serve-how-our-unhealthy-food-system-is-undermining-the-military/comment-page-1/#comment-4914 Unhealthy Food System Makes 1/3 of Eligible Recruits Too Fat To Serve in the Military « Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:00:12 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=5834#comment-4914 [...] weigh us down. No pun intended. But a new study done by the non-profit Mission: Readiness found on Civil Eats, that 1/3 of young people are unfit to serve because of weight. Frightening statistics in a time [...] [...] weigh us down. No pun intended. But a new study done by the non-profit Mission: Readiness found on Civil Eats, that 1/3 of young people are unfit to serve because of weight. Frightening statistics in a time [...]

]]> By: Greenhoof » Blog Archive » Unhealthy Food System Makes 1/3 of Eligible Recruits Too Fat To Serve in the Military http://civileats.com/2009/12/16/too-fat-to-serve-how-our-unhealthy-food-system-is-undermining-the-military/comment-page-1/#comment-4913 Greenhoof » Blog Archive » Unhealthy Food System Makes 1/3 of Eligible Recruits Too Fat To Serve in the Military Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:47:08 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=5834#comment-4913 [...] weigh us down. No pun intended. But a new study done by the non-profit Mission: Readiness found on Civil Eats, that 1/3 of young people are unfit to serve because of weight. Frightening statistics in a time [...] [...] weigh us down. No pun intended. But a new study done by the non-profit Mission: Readiness found on Civil Eats, that 1/3 of young people are unfit to serve because of weight. Frightening statistics in a time [...]

]]> By: Helen http://civileats.com/2009/12/16/too-fat-to-serve-how-our-unhealthy-food-system-is-undermining-the-military/comment-page-1/#comment-4854 Helen Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:46:15 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=5834#comment-4854 I would hazard a guess that under the Truman administration not only was having enough food to eat a concern for many children, those same children were also much more apt to be involved in physical labor, doing farm chore before and after school. Their higher level of activity called for plenty of protein and calories. Meat was the expensive part of the meal, hence Roosevelt's promise of a chicken in every pot. Now our needs as a country are different, in that children are overall less active, and are often filling up on empty calories, which are cheaper than real food for families to provide. Being malnourished while being overfed is a cruel joke on too many. There has to be some way to encourage the production and sale of real, fresh food. Returning to gowing food closer to where it is consumed may be one answer, as long as consumers are willing to accept food that doesn't all look the same, isn't always pretty, and is available in season. That means that buying for school lunch programs must become more decentralized as well. There will be many arguments about how much more costly this will be, and how highly processed food transported great distances is healthy for both the economy and the environment. but then we live in a world where logical falacies justify profit seeking. I would hazard a guess that under the Truman administration not only was having enough food to eat a concern for many children, those same children were also much more apt to be involved in physical labor, doing farm chore before and after school. Their higher level of activity called for plenty of protein and calories. Meat was the expensive part of the meal, hence Roosevelt’s promise of a chicken in every pot.

Now our needs as a country are different, in that children are overall less active, and are often filling up on empty calories, which are cheaper than real food for families to provide. Being malnourished while being overfed is a cruel joke on too many. There has to be some way to encourage the production and sale of real, fresh food. Returning to gowing food closer to where it is consumed may be one answer, as long as consumers are willing to accept food that doesn’t all look the same, isn’t always pretty, and is available in season. That means that buying for school lunch programs must become more decentralized as well. There will be many arguments about how much more costly this will be, and how highly processed food transported great distances is healthy for both the economy and the environment. but then we live in a world where logical falacies justify profit seeking.

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