claim: "sixty-one percent of our active military are currently listed as overweight."
author: mike huckabee
evidence_1: sep 12, 2016 ... about 7.8 percent of the military — nearly one in 13 troops — is clinically  overweight. ... this rate has crept upward since 2001, when it was just 1.6  percent, or one in 60, according to defense department data obtained by military  times. and it's ... right now. but i think it's something that needs our attention.
evidence_2: sep 5, 2013 ... within the civilian population, 68.8% are overweight (i.e., body mass index [bmi] ≥25 kg/m2), including 35.5% of the population classified as obese (bmi≥30) (1).  rates of overweight and obesity within the active-duty military now approach  civilian estimates (2). further compounding this troubling trend, ...
evidence_3: 1 comment. how to calculate your ideal body fat percentage. by: e.c.  lameaux. body fat percentage is the percentage of your weight that is made up  of fat. ... obese: over 39 percent; 41-60 yrs old: underfat: under 23 percent,  healthy: 23-35 percent, overweight : 35-40 percent obese: over 40 percent; 61- 79 yrs old: ...
evidence_4: dec 28, 2011 ... in the battle to lose weight, and keep it off, our bodies are fighting against us. ... of  biomedical and clinical science at the university of exeter, people who carried a  variant known as fto faced a much higher risk of obesity — 30 percent higher if  they had one copy of the variant; 60 percent if they had two.
evidence_5: less than 5% of adults participate in 30 minutes of physical activity each day;  only one in three adults receive the recommended amount of physical activity  each ... obesity then and now ... obesity is also a growing threat to national  security – a surprising 27% of young americans are too overweight to serve in  our military.