The United States Army Garrison Bavaria community creates new awareness and understanding toward an active approach toward personal fitness.The Bavarian Health Initiative was created following an annual conference hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army in San Antonio, Texas, in the summer of 2018 highlighting Physical Fitness challenges in the fighting force. The focus is obesity, and poor health practices. Statistics identifying one in 20 Soldiers fail the current Army Physical Fitness Test annually and 13 percent of Soldiers are clinically obese. These health trends identified were across the community to include Families of service members. These facts energized the community to adopt new health practices and work toward better health. The article denotes the steps in the life changing process.
Date Taken: | 06.10.2018 |
Date Posted: | 12.27.2018 05:32 |
Photo ID: | 4991941 |
VIRIN: | 181221-A-PV467-1001 |
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Location: | GRAFENWOHR, BAYERN, DE |
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