Huckabee: Fat is a threat to economy
GOP presidential candidate and self-described “recovering foodaholic” Mike Huckabee told the Southern Governors’ Assn. convention in Biloxi that an obesity epidemic could cause serious problems for the American economy and national security.
“Today we hear a lot about the war on terror, how we need to fight it,” said Huckabee, who lost 110 pounds several years ago when he was governor of Arkansas. “Let me ask this question: Who’s going to fight it in the future if we’re a generation so sick that we don’t have the capacity to show up for work?”
Huckabee also said obesity was creating the first generation of Americans who might not live as long as their parents.
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