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General: School lunches are U.S. national-security issue - 0 views

blogs.reuters.com/...-are-a-national-security-issue

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  • If you’re wondering why a retired general cares about school lunches, know that childhood obesity is a serious national security issue
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      jettmc on 11 Mar 16
       
      true very true
  • That is why I am alarmed that nearly one in three young adults ages 17 to 24 is too heavy to serve in the military.
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      jettmc on 11 Mar 16
       
      School lunches are bad so bad kids can't serve in the army. 
  • In addition, though many recruits may suffer injuries to muscles, tendons and bones, people are at far greater risk if they have excess body weight, poor calcium intake or years of inadequate exercise in childhood. The Veterans Administration pays more than $5 billion a year to military personnel disabled by musculoskeletal injuries.
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      jettmc on 11 Mar 16
       
      sad people are in greater risk of dying from being fat not getting murdered. 
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school lunches in the US compared to other countries - Business Insider - 0 views

www.businessinsider.com/ared-to-other-countries-2015-2

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  • that's a problem: It's been found that students who eat school lunches are at a higher risk for being an unhealthy weight.
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      jettmc on 10 Mar 16
       
      The claim: Kids are at higher risk of getting over weight eating school food.
  • These problems drove Sweetgreen, the rapidly growing chain of salad restaurants that's making a quite a buzz, to start its Sweetgreen in Schools initiative.
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      jettmc on 10 Mar 16
       
      This is important evidence because it's showing that Sweetgreen is becoming a new food program for schools around the US. 
  • To get a better sense of how unhealthy food given to US schoolchildren really is, Sweetgreen researched what a school lunch looked like in eight other countries. The differences will surprise you.
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      jettmc on 10 Mar 16
       
      This is important reasoning because it's showing that the food program now is not as good as Sweetgreen.
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