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039 School News (#2): Too Fat To Fight
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039 School News (#2): Too Fat To Fight
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16 minutes
Released:
Apr 23, 2010
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Podcast episode
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Picture: Hey kids! The military wants you to know that if you eat right and exercise, a nice box like one of these could have your name on it one day.
School lunches called a national security threat!
Retired military officers say kids are growing up too pudgy for service
WASHINGTON - School lunches have been called many things, but a group of retired military officers is giving them a new label: national security threat.
That's not a reference to the mystery meat served up in the cafeteria line either. The retired officers are saying that school lunches have helped make the nation's young people so fat that fewer of them can meet the military's physical fitness standards, and recruitment is in jeopardy.. Read More Here
School lunches called a national security threat!
Retired military officers say kids are growing up too pudgy for service
WASHINGTON - School lunches have been called many things, but a group of retired military officers is giving them a new label: national security threat.
That's not a reference to the mystery meat served up in the cafeteria line either. The retired officers are saying that school lunches have helped make the nation's young people so fat that fewer of them can meet the military's physical fitness standards, and recruitment is in jeopardy.. Read More Here
Released:
Apr 23, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (21)
4. School Has Robbed Young People of Their "Why": Teens are drowning and purposelessness, searching for meaning. Political operators, tech giants, and disingenuous marketers are happy to tap into that desire and angst for their own exploitative purposes, offering young people a pre-packaged "why." by School Sucks: Higher Education For Self-Liberation