{"id":148749,"date":"2023-10-20T11:15:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=148749"},"modified":"2023-10-19T19:10:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T23:10:33","slug":"military-obesity-rates-double-in-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=148749","title":{"rendered":"Military obesity rates double in 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Fat-man-as-Fat-Leonard-who-looks-like-Dennis-Chevalier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-146985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Fat-man-as-Fat-Leonard-who-looks-like-Dennis-Chevalier-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Fat-man-as-Fat-Leonard-who-looks-like-Dennis-Chevalier-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Fat-man-as-Fat-Leonard-who-looks-like-Dennis-Chevalier-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Fat-man-as-Fat-Leonard-who-looks-like-Dennis-Chevalier-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Fat-man-as-Fat-Leonard-who-looks-like-Dennis-Chevalier-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Fat-man-as-Fat-Leonard-who-looks-like-Dennis-Chevalier.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obesity data on active-duty service members released in 2022 indicates a doubling of obesity since 2012. This rate has also increased among the general population, which adds to the recruiting challenges that the military services face. The percentage of overweight and obese among those serving on active-duty sits at 68 percent.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From Roll Call:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Military obesity rates across the active duty jumped from 10.4 percent in 2012 to 21.6 percent in 2022, according to the study, the findings of which were released on Oct. 12. This mirrors a national trend that has shrunk the military&#8217;s recruitment pool and led to billions of dollars in associated health care costs.<\/p>\n<p>Today, 68 percent of active-duty servicemembers are either overweight or obese, and eating disorders in the military increased by approximately 79 percent between 2017 and 2021, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Although obesity in the U.S. and the military is not new, the seemingly rapid increase in the rate of overweight troops could renew concerns over military readiness, as obesity is a primary contributor to in-service injuries and medical discharges, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the report found that the military&#8217;s inconsistent use of body mass index (BMI) data and social stigmas surrounding the treatment of obesity are hampering efforts to combat it. According to the report, the armed forces should treat obesity as a chronic disease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Department of Defense&#8217;s influence over the active-duty environment allows it to successfully mitigate this crisis by applying evidence-based treatments and controlling contributing factors such as diet, exercise, sleep, and stress,&#8221; the author, Courtney Manning, wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are part of a broader national trend that has also shrunk the military&#8217;s recruitment pool, as the services struggle to find eligible applicants who meet the physical requirements for enlistment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Roll Call provides additional information <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2023\/10\/18\/military-obesity-rates-soar-compounding-recruitment-challenges\/\">here<\/a>. The white paper addressing this topic has more <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/24040523\/ref-0286-combating-military-obesity-2.pdf\">details<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity data on active-duty service members released in 2022 indicates a doubling of obesity since 2012. &hellip; <a title=\"Military obesity rates double in 10 years\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=148749\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Military obesity rates double in 10 years<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-ygbsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148749","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}