We've been in the school systems for 20 years watching all four of those risk factors mature, grow and ultimately cause an obesity epidemic that now prevents Three quarters of young men [are prevented] from entering the military [due to obesity]. And so this is a crisis that is rolling up towards the older ages. There's a reason we're twice as obese as European counterpart countries. We're 10 times more obese than Japan. (04:16–04:18)
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