Police Officers Should be Subject to Physical Fitness Tests

In today’s society, police officers should be physically fit.  Most of the criminals are fit, or at least trim, so why shouldn’t our cops?  I don’t hate cops, I don’t hate what they stand for, and I kinda fear their authority (even though I’m grown up now and not the delinquent that I once was, I still get a little nervous when I’m on the road and a cop is following me), and I’m even for cops getting higher pay.  It’s a dangerous job, they should get paid A LOT more!

But when I see a fat, out of shape cop, it’s just embarrassing.  We live in a very contradictory society where there’s a lot of pressure to be thin and in shape, while there’s so much crap food that you can buy cheap out on the market.  But when you envision a cop, you think of someone that is physically fit with a badass attitude, or maybe that’s just the movies…

Well anyway, here’s an article that makes the argument that cops should be physically fit as part of their job, meaning that they have to stay in shape throughout their career because of the strenuous nature of the job.

Police One article

I have to agree with the article because, like I said before, most of the criminals are fit and active…except for the usual crack addicts and meth heads…but a lot of criminals are scrappy and most of them could probably outrun a cop.  Police officers don’t have to look like Sylvester Stallone-badass-supercops, but they could get into a fitness routine that keeps them in shape.  You have to pass a fitness test to get into police academy, you should have to pass fitness tests to keep your career as well.

Besides, there’s nothing stereotypically funnier than seeing a cop eating a donut!

Obese Children May Need New Livers By Age 30

In another unsurprising bit of news about the obesity epidemic in America, now overweight children will need to have their livers replaced because of being overweight.  If their livers aren’t damaged now, it will be by their 30s….

CNN news article here

“The American Liver Foundation and other experts estimate 2 to 5 percent of American children over age 5, nearly all of them obese or overweight, have the condition, called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.”

Apparently, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease causes cirrosis of the liver, which is then followed by liver failure and liver cancer.  Now, I’m no doctor, but I do know that they all lead to DEATH!!

Parents, please tell your kids to get off the couch and go outside for a bike ride or a pick-up football game because nonalcoholic fatty liver disease CAN be cured through weightloss.  Stop it with the denial.  Look at your kid, admit to yourself they’re fat, and tell them to put down the cheese doodles and do something athletic before they’re subjected to a very short lifetime of pain, misery, and an endless search for organ donors.