Obesity rates in the U.S. military surged during the coronavirus pandemic and its associated lockdowns, data released Sunday details.
in the Army alone, nearly 10,000 active duty soldiers developed obesity between February 2019 and June 2021, pushing the rate to nearly a quarter of the troops studied. Increases were seen in the U.S. Navy and the Marines, too.
“The Army and the other services need to focus on how to bring the forces back to fitness,” said Tracey Perez Koehlmoos, director of the Center for Health Services Research at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland, who ledOverweight and obese troops are more likely to be injured and less likely to endure the physical demands of their profession meaning the pandemic pounds will now have to come off.
U.S. Army trainees participating in the Army’s new Future Soldier Prep Course stretch during a physical training session at Fort Jackson on September 28, 2022 in Columbia, South Carolina. The course is a pre-basic training improvement camp for those wanting to join the Army but who have not yet qualified due to excess body fat or low academic test scores.
The military loses more than 650,000 workdays each year because of extra weight and obesity-related health costs exceed $1.5 billion annually for current and former service members and their families,Military leaders have been warning about the impact of obesity on the U.S.
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