Too fat to fight: Colorado nonprofit says military threatened by childhood obesity
By: Tom Roeder
October 17, 2017 Updated: October 17, 2017 at 6:33 am
Even the kids in America's fittest state are too fat to fight their nation's wars, a pro-military nonprofit argues in a new study.
The military has long bemoaned America's tubby youth, and the Council for a Strong America says Colorado is part of the problem, with more than 27 percent of the state's children categorized as overweight.
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