The Lord "made us," says the psalmist this Sunday. So what made the U.S. a nation with a serious obesity problem? A group of retired military officers blame high-calorie school lunches, which they say are making young people too overweight to serve in the military.

A study by the group "Mission: Readiness" finds that school lunches are making American kids so overweight that fewer of them can meet the military's physical fitness standards. That, in turn, is putting recruitment in jeopardy.

A report from the group released Tuesday says that 27 percent of Americans ages 17 to 24 are too overweight to join the military. One of the officers, retired Navy Rear Admiral James Barnett Jr., said many young Americans are simply too fat to fight.

The officers are pushing for passage of a wide-ranging nutrition bill that aims to make the nation's school lunches healthier.

Source: An article by Mary Clare Jalonick for the Associated Press