America’s Soldiers Are Fatter Than Ever. Here’s The Army’s Plan To Fix That
By Sarah Sicard
on July 28, 2017
The U.S. Army is bulking up — just not in the way it probably intended.
In October 2016, a Department of Defense study revealed that the Army was the fattest of all the service branches, with 10.5% of soldiers classified as overweight based on body mass index. But less than a year later, the problem appears to have worsened: At the 2017 Medical Symposium on June 24, the Army Surgeon General’s Office presented data indicating that a full 13% of soldiers are now overweight.
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