{"id":139536,"date":"2023-04-02T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T16:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=139536"},"modified":"2023-04-02T12:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T16:22:50","slug":"is-there-nothing-covid-cant-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139536","title":{"rendered":"Is there nothing COVID can&#8217;t do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139537 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/mt6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"259\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Pandemic Caused Active-Duty Obesity<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The DoD updated its 20-year-old policy March of last year to establish body composition and physical fitness standards for active-duty service members.<\/p>\n<p>The revised DoD Instruction 1308.03 states all service members \u201cwill maintain physical readiness by possessing the necessary body composition and aerobic and anaerobic fitness to successfully perform in accordance with their service-specific requirements, missions, and military specialties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The backbone of this policy is the body fat standard that defines the acceptable body composition range for active-duty service members.<\/p>\n<p>Big Army has a big fat problem.<\/p>\n<h3>Pandemic pounds push 10,000 U.S. Army soldiers into obesity<\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Obesity in the U.S. military surged during the COVID-19 pandemic<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After gaining 30 pounds during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Daniel Murillo is finally getting back into fighting shape.<\/p>\n<p>Early pandemic lockdowns, endless hours on his laptop and heightened stress led Murillo, 27, to reach for cookies and chips in the barracks at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Gyms were closed, organized exercise was out and Murillo&#8217;s motivation to work out on his own was low.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could notice it,\u201d said Murillo, who is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighed as much as 192 pounds. \u201cThe uniform was tighter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murillo wasn&#8217;t the only service member dealing with extra weight. New research found that obesity in the U.S. military surged during the pandemic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/pandemic-pounds-push-10000-us-army-soldiers-obesity-98299018\">ABC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shades of jelly donuts! Recruitment is way down for reasons beyond the grasp of what passes for Leadership these days, so recycling fat-bodies makes sense. Pardon my lack of sympathy for those suffering from self-inflicted standards failure, and now these motive challenged members get a second bite at the apple. I&#8217;m sure this will be officially recorded on performance evaluations, in fairness to those who were professional enough to,<br \/>\nWhat was I thinking? Never mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pandemic Caused Active-Duty Obesity The DoD updated its 20-year-old policy March of last year to establish &hellip; <a title=\"Is there nothing COVID can&#8217;t do?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139536\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is there nothing COVID can&#8217;t do?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-pentagon","category-its-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139536","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}