{"id":116124,"date":"2021-08-05T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=116124"},"modified":"2021-08-04T20:58:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T00:58:06","slug":"last-week-troops-were-starving-due-to-food-insecurity-now-theyre-starving-themselves-in-a-pervasive-culture-of-eating-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=116124","title":{"rendered":"Last week troops were starving due to “food insecurity”, now they’re starving themselves in a “pervasive culture of eating disorders”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pfc. Alisa Davis, an engineer with the 176th Engineer Company, is measured to ensure that she is within the Army height and weight standards at Snohomish National Guard Armory on Oct. 3, 2015. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Spc. Maggie Booker, 122nd Public Affairs Operation Center)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last week I mentioned how the “DoD \u201call in\u201d on combating \u201cfood insecurity\u201d in the ranks<\/a>. I linked in that article to the earlier discussion on what “food insecurity” means here;\u00a01\/5th of military families are starving!!!<\/a> \u00a0Basically, you’re “insecure” about your food if you’ve ever eaten something ’cause you ran out of cash to eat what you want. First world problems, I tell ya.<\/p>\n

This week, Task and Purpose<\/a> highlights what they call a “pervasive culture of eating disorders” within the US military. As evidence they relate the story of a US Army first lieutenant who was failing her tape test (used to calculate body fat percentage) while she was in the Army’s graduate program, putting her master’s degree in jeopardy. In the most ironic of ironies, she was completing her\u00a0free\u00a0<\/em>master’s course work (while seemingly receiving active duty O-2 pay) in the field of nutrition. You can’t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n

She had trouble meeting the standard before she joined;<\/p>\n

So she started restricting her diet. She was a nutrition student, Dyal reasoned; while she knew what she was doing wasn\u2019t necessarily healthy, she figured she could handle it. And besides, she anticipated strict dieting for only a short period of time to drop weight and get into the program. Yet over the next year, she become \u201chyper conscious\u201d of the food she ate, hungry \u201cmost of the time,\u201d and only allowed herself to eat certain foods for every meal.<\/p>\n

By January 2018, Dyal had completed the Army\u2019s basic officer leader course and was starting the master\u2019s program in nutrition. That was when the pressure really began, she said, recalling an overwhelming stigma over Army dietitians needing to be taped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It sounds like this young lady either had a pre-existing condition or at the least a predilection.\u00a0Yeah, the tape test sucks. Yes, it’s very common for people to avoid eating in the week(s) leading up to it. Yes, people dehydrate themselves for it. It creates a lot of anxiety (it did in me, that’s for sure). These things do not lead to a “pervasive culture” of eating disorders. You suck it up (in the case of the waist measurement, you\u00a0literally<\/strong><\/em> suck it up), pass, and then move on with your life for another 11-12 months.<\/p>\n

If you’re wondering where Task and Purpose collected all their datapoints to paint a sweeping picture of the US military being filled with anorexic and bulimic troops, they do mention their exhaustive journalistic means;<\/p>\n

This article is based on interviews with 13 service members across the military \u2014 men and women, officers and enlisted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I mentioned how the “DoD \u201call in\u201d on combating \u201cfood insecurity\u201d in the ranks. … Last week troops were starving due to “food insecurity”, now they’re starving themselves in a “pervasive culture of eating disorders”<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116126,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116124\/revisions\/116126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}