Thursday, 22nd April 2010

New Report: "Too Fat to Fight"

New Report: "Too Fat to Fight" (PDF; 2.2 MB)
Source: Mission: Readiness
From press release (PDF; 175 KB):

More than 9 million young adults - 27 percent of all Americans age 17 to 24 - are too overweight to join the military, according to a new report released by MISSION: READINESS, a non-profit group of more than 130 retired admirals, generals and other senior military leaders.

Declaring that escalating rates of child obesity pose a serious threat to national security, retired military leaders joined Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today in support of new child nutrition legislation to help reduce the obesity epidemic and expand the pool of healthy young adults available for military service.

Category:

• Food and agriculture (DocuTicker)
• Health and healthcare (DocuTicker)
• Military and defense (DocuTicker)
• Obesity (DocuTicker)

Views: 901

Please note: DocuTicker's editors collect citations for full-text PDF reports freely available on the web but we do not archive these reports. When you click a link to find and/or download the report, you are leaving the DocuTicker site. DocuTicker makes no representations regarding the ongoing availability of any report or any external resource. Links were accurate as of the date of posting.

FreePint

FreePint supports the value of information in the enterprise. Read more »

Latest FreePint Articles:

• Webinar Will Bring Big Data Down to Size
  Monday, 20th May 2013

  Find out more about FreePint's Webinar: Big Data in Action: Plain Language, Practical Guidance and don't forget to register for the free event. It's a great opportunity to find out more about big data from four technology and service companies in the sector: Attunity, Connotate, Linguamatics and Opera Solutions.

• Question Time for Thomson Reuters and PLC's Top Team
  Monday, 20th May 2013

  Robin Neidorf meets up with key members of Thomson Reuters and PLC's senior management team to quiz them about the role of PLC in Thomson Reuters' plans for the US legal market - and to find out more about Thomson Reuters' approach to the legal market worldwide.

• Law Librarians and Content Choices
  Monday, 20th May 2013

  As Thomson Reuters continues to assimilate PLC into its business post acquisition, FreePint interviews members of the senior management team to find out how PLC's offering can support the changing structure of law firms and the increasingly strategic role of legal information professionals.

• ... more ...

All Family Articles »
Family Articles by Category »

A FreePint Subscription delivers articles and reports that support your organisation's information practice, content and strategy.

Start the conversation about a subscription by
completing our online form: "How can FreePint help?"

FreePint Testimonials

"This report will be of great value to me as I meet with the managing partner in the near future to discuss the budget. It is one of the ..."

Read more testimonials and supply yours »