Two Washington, D.C. Area Veteran-backed Teams Support Efforts to Fight Childhood Obesity and Improve the Health of Military Recruits

Hungerpangs.Net and StewSmith.com- Heroes of Tomorrow Fitness are teaming up to help improve fitness levels and reduce military recruit obesity rates.  Recruiting fit men and women is critical to maintaining the readiness of any military force.  Despite this fact, U.S. military services are struggling to find physically fit recruits.  According to Mission: Readiness “75 percent of 17 to 24-year-olds do not meet the basic minimum standards required for military service”.

In its most recent report entitled "Too Fat to Fight", retired flag officers who are members of “MissionReadiness.org” note that the growing obesity epidemic among the youth of today is unchecked and thus the “health of our children and our national security are at risk”.   Members of MissionReadiness.org propose a focused solution to “take the junk food out of schools, improve the meals served, provide healthier meals to more kids, and offer programs that encourage kids to eat better and exercise more”.  These leaders are urging Congress to take immediate and decisive action to help reverse the “epidemic of childhood obesity” by taking three steps:

1)    “Get the junk food and high-calorie beverages out of our schools by allowing the Secretary of Agriculture to adopt the Institute of Medicine standards for what can be served or marketed in schools.”

2)    “Increase funding for the school lunch programs. This funding will help deliver healthier, lower-calorie meals to more poor children who are already eligible to receive them and to others from millions of families that purchase the meals. That can help the students control their weight now and – if the meals are more appetizing – reinforce the message that they can successfully adopt healthier life-long habits.”

3)    “Support the development, testing and deployment of proven public-health interventions that can deliver the education and encouragement children and their parents need to adopt”

Adoption of MissionReadiness.org’s recommendations would represent a significant improvement for the future health of our nation’s youth and as a result, would improve the fitness and preparedness of a viable pool of recruitable candidates.  However, there are near-term actions that can be taken to improve the health and fitness of potential military recruits.  These steps involve a program that combines healthy eating with a rigorous fitness program.  Military fitness expert and former U.S. Navy SEAL, Stew Smith, of StewSmith.com has teamed up with two fellow Navy veterans from the Hungerpangs.net Team to bring a comprehensive fitness and nutrition program to military recruits.

We’re taking action! Effective immediately, Hungerpangs.net will begin providing nutritional content (articles, eBook chapters and meal plan information) to www.stewsmith.com, while StewSmith.com will provide fitness content (articles and fitness plan information) to www.hungerpangs.net.   Over the next 90 days, Hungerpangs.net will launch dedicated web pages on www.hungerpangs.net for military recruits.  Hungerpangs.net will work with military recruiting commands to ensure that www.hungerpangs.net functionality and content fully meet the requirements of military recruits.  If you or somebody you know is planning to join the military, please encourage them to visit our sites – Hungerpangs.net and StewSmith.com – for the latest information in preparing your body for entering military service!  We look forward to serving our military brethren to the best of our ability in helping them reach their goals.

Hungerpangs.net was formed by family people, with a passion for great food and healthy eating.  The company is committed to improving the health of America by offering free nutritional support and fitness information to its members.  For Hungerpangs.net, this begins with focusing on our youth.  Hungerpangs.net functionality and content is always free to our members.

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