The Pentagon says that more than seventy percent of young people today are ineligible to enlist in the military and may have difficulty finding work in the private sector, and they're not even talking about the fact that all they can do is whine and play the victim. -- USA Today
I recall an article involving parts of Missouri during WWII. They lived in a backward area and ate only food produced within a few miles of their home. That led to severe deficiencies in several nutrients that were not available in the soil of that region. Switzerland had the same problem due to a deficiency on iodine at one point, and widespread thyroid dysfunction. I realize the cause is different, but the results are the same. If you watched Martin's video on conspiracies, it points out the role that atrazine may play in the feminization of western society and the obesity epidemic.
@Don Alaska The birth rate in America is the lowest it's been in 38 years. If that trend is evident as a non-circumstancial quirk, but rather an ongoing trend, the relationship between generational-propagation of endocrine disruption may be responsible. The obesity phenomenon may also. World-wide study of estrogen-mimicking as early as the 1970s showed strong evidence of "feminization" traits not otherwise explainable. Nor were the facts accepted which showed this stuff to have inundated the food chains of living things, humans included, in unexpected far reaches of the world. Frank
@ Don Alaska: That led to severe deficiencies in several nutrients that were not available in the soil of that region. Switzerland had the same problem due to a deficiency on iodine at one point... When I moved to the lower half of a peninsula several years ago, there were 2 major grocery stores in the town. One of them, Walmart, did not have one box of iodized salt.
Are you a Michigander? The story I told about Switzerland is a famous one in the medical journals. I can't recall the time details, but medical people used to determine "normal" by the mean values in a given population for any given parameter. The Swiss study showed everyone that the average values for a population does not mean they are healthy values. Unfortunately that has also led to the belief that a lower cholesterol is a better cholesterol. What the authorities don't take into account is that your body can manufacture its own cholesterol, but it cannot make iodine, iron, or even vitamin C.
Sad, isn't it? My son-in-law was career Air Force and spent his final year as a recruiter. He said it was shocking the number of overweight kids that had to be turned away.
@Don Alaska: Are you a Michigander? No, I'm from GA, but a resident of DE - 3rd highest breast cancer rate in the country. No sales tax on anything is absolutely wonderful. Finding a buyer for my home - even better.
@Don Alaska The peninsula had me buffaloed. It's really an island. You can't leave it without crossing a bridge.
I would like to see the Selective Service Draft reinstated! (I volunteered for the Draft to get the shorter Active Duty tour of 2 years.) MilitaryTraining is one thing, but I would also like to see Discipline and Respect for Authority drilled into those spoiled computer-gaming softies! Hal