It's time for a school war on blubber, say retired US brass

WASHINGTON - School lunches have been called many things, but a group of retired American military officers is giving them a new label: national security threat.

That's not a reference to the mystery meat served up in the cafeteria.

The retired officers are saying that school lunches have helped make young Americans so fat that fewer of them can meet the military's physical fitness standards, and recruitment is in jeopardy.