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Understanding and Overcoming the Challenge of Obesity and Overweight in the Armed Forces Proceedings of a Workshop (2018) / Chapter Skim
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6 Potential Future Opportunities for the Armed Forces, Military Families, and Their Communities
Pages 57-60

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... MODERATORS' REFLECTIONS Lieutenant Pamela Gregory, Navy nutrition program manager, spoke about the close collaboration among stakeholders across the armed forces to address obesity and overweight. Observing that sharing resources and assets can build collective power toward achieving common objectives, she stressed the importance of reaching out to other sectors to identify and leverage additional opportunities for addressing the problem collectively, even though "trying to get others to come alongside us is not always the easiest thing to do." Cross-sector collaboration is also important, she suggested, because obesity and overweight affect America's national security.
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From page 58...
... Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, lauded the synergy that the workshop had created and predicted that sustained progress would result from continued collaboration. She drew attention to the relative lack of information about service members' eating behaviors compared with their physical fitness, and wondered about the potential to survey service members on a wider range of health-related behaviors.
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From page 59...
... A related challenge, said Osgood, is that fast food establishments create revenue for military installations, and the legal and operational complexities associated with bringing outside quick service restaurants onto military installations can make it difficult to attract new establishments that could provide healthier offerings. Cole added that it will be important to measure whether changing the environment results
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... Military service participants suggested that civilian employees in DoD and the Defense Health Agency can help support health initiatives and prevent gaps in service from occurring when active duty staff deploy or migrate or contractors turn over. In closing, Marriott stated that the day's discussions had "shown how complex it is to look at the issues related to obesity and overweight within the military." Highlighting a few statistics that speakers had shared about the negative consequences of excess weight among service members, she concluded, "these are pretty staggering pieces of information as we think about meeting this challenge."
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