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Hello, my name's Hertling

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and I'm a soldier and

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-- you probably could tell that.

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I've been in the military for 38 years.

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I'm thinking of making it a career.

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I have seen -- (Laughter) --

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I have seen and studied and analysed

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all types of security threats.

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I've fought in several wars

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but there's an emerging threat[br]that we're seeing

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and I'd like to talk a little bit[br]about today

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that I think will have an effect[br]on our future,

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our economy,

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our youth

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and our economic system.

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It is an emerging threat

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that concerns me significantly

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and it's represented in this picture.

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Now you might think,

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why is a soldier talking about

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a young man who is obviously inactive

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and perhaps is a little bit overweight?

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And it's because of some things I've seen

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in the last several years

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and I'd like to talk a little bit about those today

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and related to how I believe

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it could be a national security threat

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within the next 20 to 30 years.

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First of all, in 1983,

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the Army sent me on something

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called a broadening experience.

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I was asked to go graduate school

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at Indiana University.

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I had studied as an undergraduate [br]in International Relations

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but they said, "Hey we want you to go

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and get a Master's degree[br]in Exercise Physiology

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and then teach PE at West Point."

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So I said, "Okay, sounds like a great idea.

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It's broadening to be sure."

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And I went out there -- (Laugther) --

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I went to Indiana University

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and my first class was an anatomy class

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and I had an anatomy lab.

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I walked into the classroom

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and they issued me a cadaver.

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As they did everyone else in the class.

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And the cadaver I had,[br]came with a medical history

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The professor told us,[br]"In order to respect

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the people who have given[br]their bodies to science

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we'd ask you to respect them,[br]too, and you perhaps

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wanna name them to remind yourself

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that they were once a person

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although we don't wanna give you[br]their real name."

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So I named mine Charlie.

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Charlie had a medical history.

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He had been a two-pack-a-day smoker.

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Charlie had not exercised in the last 20 years.

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Charlie was extremely overweight

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and Charlie had died of a cardiovascular disease

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and he was 46 years old.

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When we pulled him up and we began,

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the various students in the room began

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our disection of these bodies

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I had a lot of a tougher time

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than some of the other students

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because I had to cut through

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several layers of adipose.

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When I got to the internal body cavities

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it was amazing to me

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comparing Charlie's organs

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to some of the organs of [br]the other students in the class.

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The heart was surrounded by fat

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several inches.

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One of the tricks our instructors taught us was,

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you know, we had to through these labs

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where we had to name what vein was which

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and what artery was which,

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and the professor said, "If you pull

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on an artery, it's like a rubber band.

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If you pull on a vein, it's like [br]a guitar string and it'll twang."

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When I pulled on Charlie's arteries and veins

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they broke off into my hand.

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So I finished grad school

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and went to teach at West Point for 3 years

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from '83 to '86

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and then after that assignment

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I went back to the operational Army

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and did things that all soldiers do:

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commanded organizations,

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trained, went into combat several times,

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and then coming out of combat

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as a Division Commander in 2009

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the Army decided they wanted to promote me

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to three-star General

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I think because they wanted to prove

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they have a sense of humor.

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They then sent me to be the Commander of

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Initial Military Training.

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My job was to train[br]the 160,000 or so soldiers

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or correction: civilians,

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that would come into the Army every year

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and turn them into soldiers.

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What I found when I reported to that assignment

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disturbed me.

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Several facts came to my attention.

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First of all, 75% or more

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a little bit more actually

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of the civilians who wanted to join the Army

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were not qualified to do so.

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75% of the 17-24 year olds [br]who wanted to join the Army

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were not qualified

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and the number one reason

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was because they were obese.

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Of the 25% that could join the Army

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what we found on the first day of basic training

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was that about 60% of them

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could not pass the PT test

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that we gave on the first day.

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And that was: [br]one minute of push-ups,

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one minute of sit-ups and[br]a one-mile run.

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Now, that's not a difficult test.

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But we were finding that

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a great majority of our new soldiers

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coming off the civilian environment,

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could not pass that test.

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I couldn't understand what had happened.

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This was not what I had left

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studying physical education in 1986.

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As we did some analyses

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I realized that a couple of things had changed.

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First of all, number one[br]and the primary reason was

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starting in the late '90s

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the majority of our elementary[br]and high schools

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stopped teaching PE,

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and in fact, only five states

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of the 50 of our country right now

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have mandatory requirements[br]for physical education

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between K and 12th grade today.

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Five out of 50.

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Now, you say,[br]"Okay, well that's interesting,

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but what does the Army care about that?"

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Well, we're getting the product of that

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but in addition to second and third order effects

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were young people that were joining our service

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could not run, dodge, jump, tumble, roll

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the kinds of things you expect soldiers to do

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if they're in combat.

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The second thing we found

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or that I found or realized was

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that our diet had changed radically

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in the last 15 years.

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We were supersizing everything.

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Having been stationed overseas in Germany,

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that's not the case there,

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but they were supersizing --

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if you want a large fries

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you can get extra large[br]and extra-extra large.

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You couldn't just get a 16 oz drink,

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you could get a 24, 42, 64 oz soda.

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And that was having a deleterious effect.

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It was fascinating to me

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that we were also seeing,

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a scientist told me,

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that in the last 15 years

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from the time I left West Point until today

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Americans eat about 30% more calories a day

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than they had in 1983

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and about 15 lbs more of sugar a year.

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Phenomenal statistics.

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But the combination[br]of a lack of physical education

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and an increase of poor nutrition

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was causing secondary effects.

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This is the "O" food group, by the way.

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I started calling it the "O" food group

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because anything that ends in an "O"

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is probably not good for you.

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(Laugther)

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I haven't found anything[br]that ended in "O" yet

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that was actually very nutritious in nature.

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But what we started to do was

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we saw some second and third order effects

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and this is one of them

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this is at one of our training bases

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and we have five in the United States Army.

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We were seeing a malady called

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femoral neck stress injuries,

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and what that means is that

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the tip of the pelvis would crack

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and it wouldn't be a clean break

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but it would be a stress fracture

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that would cause significant problems

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and you can see starting in 2000[br]that we were beginning to see this

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and this is because the people [br]we were recruiting were just coming of age

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and many of them had not had PE

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and they had started to have the bad nutrition.

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But by 2009 when our new recruits

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were 18 or 19 years old

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they had gone through their entire life

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without having a PE class[br]and dependent on bad nutrition.

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Those 135 that we had at one training base

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are significant injuries because

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in order to fix it

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it costs anywhere between [br]USD 100,000 and USD 300,000.

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So this is an economic issue.

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This isn't just a soldier health issue.

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For me this was an economic issue.

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The third reason, and I'll say this

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then move quickly on.

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The third reason we saw

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was an increase in technology.

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Now, I'm a big fan of technology,

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but the researchers had told me

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that we now watch as a nation

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about 150 hours of television a month.

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That's five hours a day.

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In 2009, when we started this study

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we were seeing anywhere[br]from 30 to 40 on average

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hours of internet searches

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by adult male Americans per month.

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That's between one and two hours a day.

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Gaming was off the charts.

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In 2009, and it's increased since then

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the average teenager was playing

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thirteen hours of video games per week.

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Now all those hours in front of a tube

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were replacing the play time

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and that's significant.

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In addition to that,

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the final one, number four:

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We're terrible examples to our children.

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We're in too much of a rush.

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We're eating poorly

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we're eating fast foods

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we're relaxing in front of the television[br]at the end of the day.

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We also are relying on technology

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instead of play

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and we're not balancing our lives.

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My wife has a stitchery in our house

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as we've raised two children

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and now a couple of grandchildren

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that says, "Your children are watching you."

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What you do speaks louder[br]than anything you can say.

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We were not doing the right things[br]for our children.

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So in typical army fashion

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I said, "We've got to address [br]these issues with our new recruits."

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And we changed several things.

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We began something we called

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the Soldier Athlete Initiative

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because you can't just say[br]to a bunch of 18 year olds,

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"We're going to get you all in shape

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and stop feeding you cheeseburgers."

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You have to give kind of a sexy title

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to it so we called it

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Soldier Athlete Initiative.

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If you're going to perform on the battle field,

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you have got to train like a champion.

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And what we did was,[br]we completely changed

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well, it's a three-legged stool

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we completely changed the way[br]we were training

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to compensate for things[br]that were not going on

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in grade school and high school.

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We assigned physical terapists

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and athletic trainers[br]to every organization

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because we wanted[br]to prevent the injuries

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and treat them before they turned into

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those USD 100,000 bone stress fractures.

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We wanted to fix them[br]as they became visible.

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And then the third thing[br]and probably the most important was

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we changed the way[br]we feed food in the mess halls

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the dining facilities.

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We called it "Fueling the Soldier."

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You can't just say,[br]"Hey, have a salad."

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We instead say -- (Laugther) --

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you've got to advertise with soldiers

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so we said,[br]"Hey, we're going to fuel you

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for maximum performance."

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This is what sports teams are doing.

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This is what NFL, major league baseball

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they know they've got to eat right

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in order to perform at their maximum.

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Okay, I'm not going to dwell...

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Within the first year, we saw

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some unbelievably strong statistics

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that shows this was working:

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reduction in injuries,

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we saved about USD 30 million the first year

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just in treatment of injuries.

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30 million in the army.

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Just on injury prevention

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And we began to see weight loss

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and improved... or we reduced[br]the number of

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overweight soldiers we have in the Army.

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We still have a way to go.

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We've advanced this "Fueling the Soldier"

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to "Fueling the Teams"

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and in fact we've redirected

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to the Department of Defense Schools

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for our young people[br]and we're calling it

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"Fueling the future."

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So we fixed it![br]Or we're on our way to fix it.

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What's interesting about this

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is your Army combined with your Navy,[br]your Marine Corps

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you Air Force and your Coast Guard

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makes up less than 1%[br]of the American population.

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So my concern is:

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What's going on with the other 99%?

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And this gets me back to my issue of this

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being a national security concern.

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I'm going to show you

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one area and that's just levels of obesity.

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This was a chart that represents

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the number of states in the Union

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that were below 20% obesity rates

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on average from a child of 14 to 19 years old.

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This was in 1985.

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Watch what happens.

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As you can see

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in 2009, it's significantly worse.

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The predictions for 2030

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are these:

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You can see the number of states

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that have greater than 65% children obese.

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This is not overweight, this is obese.

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Now, the related issues

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that I told you the issue with our injury rates

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and how much we were paying to fix people

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is significant.

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We spend estimated

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the Department of Health and Education

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both determined that we spend

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on average today between [br]USD 150 to USD 200 billion per year

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treating the results of childhood obesity.

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We're seeing an increase in diabetes.

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We estimate that we will have

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a 40% cardiovascular disease rate[br]by the year 2030.

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This is significant.

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This is a health care issue.

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An economic issue.

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A readiness issue for me because

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I've seen my pool of recruits deplete

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based on this.

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I can't pull them in in order to fix them.

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And it's just a competition issue.

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There's other studies[br]that show what obesity

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and lack of activity do to young people.

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So I believe this is certainly

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a national security concern.

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There are several organizations[br]who are attempting to approach this.

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You may have heard of[br]Mayor Bloomberg in New York

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who has banned all sugary drinks

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above 16 oz in schools and public restaurants[br]in New York City

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and he took a lot of heat for that.

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Nike, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Subway

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are all using overweight actors in their adds

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to pattern behavior

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and perhaps to turn this thing around.

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Nickelodeon in last year's[br]Worldwide Day of Play

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decided to put their screens black

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as opposed to showing programming

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in order to get children outside and play.

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And of course our First Lady

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over the last several years

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has been attempting to do "Let's Move!"

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and the counter obesity measures.

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This concerns me.

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This concerns me greatly.

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Again as I said

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my name is Hertling,[br]I am a soldier.

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I've been a soldier for 38 years.

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This is not something the Army can fix.

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This is not something you can put[br]a yellow ribbon on

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and say, "Let somebody else take care of it".

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This is not something

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that we can rely on governments

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or organizations to do.

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Be fearless in terms of writing your schools.

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Be fearless in trying to get nutrition

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back in restaurants.

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Be fearless in balancing your lives

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and getting out to exercise.

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Be fearless in modelling your behavior

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for young people.

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That will prevent

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a whole lot of Charlies in the future.

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Thank you very much.

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(Applause)