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This paper focuses on obesity and physical fitness in the United States Army. The corps of Non-Commissioned Officers is entirely responsible for maintaining the fitness of their Soldiers and currently they are failing their Soldiers and the Army. Obesity is on the rise in the U.S. Army and something needs to change. Topics such as removal of fast food chains from Army posts and education about personal health and fitness are some of the areas discussed in this paper. Obesity and Physical…

In the past and even still in some schools today, cafeterias have had a tendency to serve meals containing high amounts of sodium, fat, and calories as opposed to a more nutritious meal. As a result, children have been put at risk for developing heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and other serious health issues. In addition to this, teenagers will face nutrient deficiency, poor academic performance, and obesity during high school. In fact, over the past forty years,…

One of the greatest issues in the United States and society is Obesity, which has increased throughout time according to the Health Americans website. This issue has not been given the importance that it deserves as an “epidemic” that kills and causes great impact on a person’s health. The average individual in society has never really payed attention to what they consume. Our society has been engulfed in an unquenchable desire for food, whether healthy or not, processed or unprocessed. Society…

Every summer I spend 6 weeks away from civilization, canoeing and working hard with group of 8-12 young women. I have been doing this for the past 6 summers of my life. Throughout these summers people have told me how much I will value the time I spend in the wilderness. They tell me these experiences that I am so fortunate to have is something that I will truly never forget. But every time I heard this I brushed it off seeing as I was a young kid and all I cared about was having fun (which I…

There have been many misconceptions regarding what obesity is and how you get or become obese. This is because many people may not know what obesity really is. Just to clear it up, Merriam-Webster defines obesity “a condition characterized by the excessive accumulation and storage of fat in the body”. This is basically saying that if you have accumulated more than the recommended amount of body fat, you are overweight. More than 68.8% of the American population is obese. Of that, about 22.9% are…

This i It, or This was it, or that was it? Either way something was it. I had successfully made it through my first year of Junior High and my first year at Sequoia Union. It was the worst year of my life. Especially at the beginning of it all. Now what I’m about to tell you seemed like it happened along time ago compared to the difference from then and now, not to say it wasn’t a while back, yet it feels as though it were yesterday. At the beginning of this entire story, believe it or not, I…

The hermit set out of camp at midnight, carrying his backpack and his bag of break-in tools, and threaded through the forest, rock to root to rock, every step memorized. Not a boot print left behind. It was cold and nearly moonless, a fine night for a raid, so he hiked about an hour to the Pine Tree summer camp, a few dozen cabins spread along the shoreline of North Pond in central Maine. With an expert twist of a screwdriver, he popped open a door of the dining hall and slipped inside, scanning…