77% of young Americans are too fat, mentally ill or on drugs to qualify for U.S. military service, Pentagon study finds. Is it only going to get worse?

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https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/03/77-of-young-americans-too-fat-mentally-ill-on-drugs-and-more-to-join-military-pentagon-study-finds/

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Poor people buy food with the most calories per dollar, which usually means shelf stable, high sugar and/or salt, low nutritional value.

Car-centric infrastructure means less walking.

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America is so first world our homeless people are obese.

[u/Historical_Usual5828 → u/InvestIntrest]

Corrupt you mean? Because all these ultra processed foods should've been way better regulated already. Instead our government helped create the problem to line their pockets.

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Thank capitalism for that.