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Obesity is a National Security Issue: Lieutenant General Mark Hertling at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012
TEDx Talks
Lieutenant General Mark Hertling gives a TEDx talk arguing that obesity and poor youth fitness are a national security problem because too few young Americans can meet military physical requirements.
HN cites it in threads on military recruiting and obesity as an early warning from a senior general that still applies.
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