I wonder if our prison folk are healthier than Wagners.
We have twice their population and double their propensity to incarcerate, so it’s our top 25% versus their total gen pop. America wins again.
Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military
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Re: Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military
#121. "Drug use" probably includes soft drugs like cannabis. 2. Basically any diagnosis of a mental health condition, like ADHD, will block military service. This is true even if symptoms are well managed without medication. The rise of diagnosis of these conditions combined with digital records means a lot of people are prohibited to join due to mental health that would have been overlooked in previous decades. 3. This…
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#131. "Drug use" probably includes soft drugs like cannabis. 2. Basically any diagnosis of a mental health condition, like ADHD, will block military service. This is true even if symptoms are well managed without medication. The rise of diagnosis of these conditions combined with digital records means a lot of people are prohibited to join due to mental health that would have been overlooked in previous decades. 3. This…
Does "drug use" include coffee? Alcohol?
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#14Maybe military service could help some of these folks out of their unfortunate situation, given a longer training period and proper support.
The Marines slimmed my brother down but gave him a variety of mental health issues. I preferred him overweight, happy, and more functional. These are self inflicted wounds, high level. They don’t qualify because of the system we’ve built. Want healthy candidates for soldiers? Optimize for affordable nutrition and universal healthcare/mental health access [1] [2] [3] [4]. Don’t? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Rampant obesity rates and dru…
I wonder how service in the National Guard or Coast Guard compares to the other branches. Or even the Air Force.
Re: Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military
#15Maybe military service could help some of these folks out of their unfortunate situation, given a longer training period and proper support.
The Marines slimmed my brother down but gave him a variety of mental health issues. I preferred him overweight, happy, and more functional. These are self inflicted wounds, high level. They don’t qualify because of the system we’ve built. Want healthy candidates for soldiers? Optimize for affordable nutrition and universal healthcare/mental health access [1] [2] [3] [4]. Don’t? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Rampant obesity rates and dru…
Everyone has their own experiences but I will say that joining the Marines was the best thing that ever happened to me and I would openly recommend it to any young man.
Re: Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military
#161. "Drug use" probably includes soft drugs like cannabis. 2. Basically any diagnosis of a mental health condition, like ADHD, will block military service. This is true even if symptoms are well managed without medication. The rise of diagnosis of these conditions combined with digital records means a lot of people are prohibited to join due to mental health that would have been overlooked in previous decades. 3. This…
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How can you gauge sentiment of a broad group from a self-selecting sample?
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#171. "Drug use" probably includes soft drugs like cannabis. 2. Basically any diagnosis of a mental health condition, like ADHD, will block military service. This is true even if symptoms are well managed without medication. The rise of diagnosis of these conditions combined with digital records means a lot of people are prohibited to join due to mental health that would have been overlooked in previous decades. 3. This…
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> Confirming 3, everyone needs to take a look at the comments on the latest recruitment ad on YouTube to gauge the sentiment of young American men towards the government and military:
Because we all know the vocal minority commenting on youtube videos is a sample-set free of biases.
Re: Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military
#181. "Drug use" probably includes soft drugs like cannabis. 2. Basically any diagnosis of a mental health condition, like ADHD, will block military service. This is true even if symptoms are well managed without medication. The rise of diagnosis of these conditions combined with digital records means a lot of people are prohibited to join due to mental health that would have been overlooked in previous decades. 3. This…
Does "drug use" include coffee? Alcohol?
Coffee: no
Alcohol: It includes a level of alcohol abuse, but I'm not sure how they draw the line.
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#191. "Drug use" probably includes soft drugs like cannabis. 2. Basically any diagnosis of a mental health condition, like ADHD, will block military service. This is true even if symptoms are well managed without medication. The rise of diagnosis of these conditions combined with digital records means a lot of people are prohibited to join due to mental health that would have been overlooked in previous decades. 3. This…
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#20Big food companies pushing carbs while funding anti-low carb diet studies have nothing to do with it.
What if the military-industrial complex declared war against the food industry to increase the ranks of viable recruits. A great lobbyists' war.