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"Jamie Oliver isn&amp;#039;t the   only person worried about the state of America&amp;#039;s school lunches: the military is, too. Retired military officers have expressed concern about the sheer numbers of overweight, out-of-shape kids graduating from our country&amp;#039;s public schools, according to a story in USA Today.  In a study titled &amp;quot;Too Fat to Fight&amp;quot; researchers found that 75 percent of &amp;quot; young Americans are ineligible to serve their country because they have either failed to graduate high school, engaged in criminal activity, or are physically or mentally unfit.&amp;quot; What to do? The same study calls on Congress to act to remove junk food and raise nutritional standards for food served to kids in public schools. What&amp;#039;s particularly interesting is that this is not the first time the military has voiced these concerns. The last time they spoke up was right after World War II when Major General Lewis B. Hershey told a congressional committee that 16 percent of draftees were rejected or placed in limited service, and in 40 to 60 percent of those cases, &amp;quot;malnutrition or underfeeding played a likely role&amp;quot;.  While school lunch programs had been instituted in various cities around the U.S. by that time, it was Congress&amp;#039;s actions in 1945 that launched what we now know as the modern school lunch program.  There&amp;#039;s some fascinating history here and the always intriguing Food Timeline has some great information and links. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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