Sometimes this stuff writes itself.
America, The U.S.A is one of the biggest countries in the world both in a geographical sense and in terms of the size of their bulging bottoms. Forbes puts it as number 9 in its fattest countries list.
What is interesting and makes The US a very unique country is how people react to the fact that 74.1% of their citizens are overweight. Most countries around the world try and encourage their people to loose weight for health and quality of life reasons but not our mates over the water.
Just think for a second about the reasons you would be worried about being overweight. Most rational people will come up with similar reasons to lose weight which include health reasons, image issues, being able to buy clothes made for humans and just generally feeling fitter and happier as a person.
In England we chose Jamie Oliver to help save the ever growing arses of our youth with an annoyingly well intentioned campaign that went all the way to the prime minister via a load of idiotic mothers passing burgers through school fences and all that tosh you remember, but again our American cousins chose a much more dramatic way to fix this problem.
I do have to give the Americans credit for thinking of things I could never have thought to worry about.
So do you know who the Americans have worrying about the size of their children? cant guess? come on! Who do the Americans call upon when they are bored and need something to do to make them selves feel better? Yes! You figured it out well done.
Oh and if you didn't figure it out its the army!
Yes that's right in America they see it as a matter of national security that the children our ramming super-sized burger after super-sized burger down their throats.
To be fair the army haven't actually called in Jack Bauer to come in and blow up McDonald's and save the day just yet. At the moment it is just some old retired generals with nothing better to do than pine for the days when people used to listen to them and respect their opinion.
These guys are really worried not for the sake of the children's health but for the fact that they might not be able to die for their country in a war. I can hear it now and this is what I imagine they are saying " Hey listen here son you gots ta lay off all that eatin cos if you dont you cant grow up and fight in this here war and be a hero like ya uncle sam."
The irony ,that the army wants to save the children from dying of obesity so they can die 15 years later under the impression of fighting a worthy and legal war.
The Military has tried to insure it has new recruits once before when in 1946 they introduced post-school lunch laws. They recognised that poor nutrition reduced the pool of military recruits.
"We must act, as we did after World War II, to ensure that our children can one day defend our country, if need be."
After reading this quote from Mr Shalikashvili and Mr Shelton former chairmen of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff I just wonder how long the gap between the comma and "if need be" was?
Is it just me or do we need to question the mentality of a country that wants to improve the health of its young so they can grow up and kill the young of another country?
See you thought Americans were just a load of cow boys who didn't actually think about things. They are clever people who care about their country and want to defend it in every possible way from the inevitable and impending attacks.
Some say Paranoia but I say intelligence. x
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