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What do you think would make the young people healthier and have them fit for military duty? >> we need healthy choices and need these whole grains and fruits and vegetables and increase the amount of money we spend daily on a child. right now it's $2.68 per meal. by adding money to the child nutrition act, we'll be able to increase the quality of the food that's served and push out the junk food and empty calories and result in a more healthy nation and reverse this trend. we've got 39 states now that report 40% or more of young men and women in the ages of 17 to 24 as overweight. >> that str...

Ii pushed congress to enact the national school lunch program. well, they appear to be victims of their own success because now, according to this new study by mission readinesreadiness, af ex-military people, 27% of people between the ages of 17 and 24 are unfit for military duty because they're too fat. now, it's not exactly a problem at the moment because all of the services are up to the recruiting goals, but go down the road 15, 20 years, maybe to 2030, and it could become, according to mission readiness, a national security program. this morning we talked with retired air force lieutenan...

Most. >> what struck me is everything comes out of a deep fat fryer. things like vegetables and whole grains aren't there. we're spending $2.68 on each individual out there. that's hard, pretty much a challenge for those in the lunch rooms. >> how are you justifying this is a threat to our national security, perhaps. >> the fact when you take 9 million children, ages 17 to 24 and add on those that don't have a high school education and those that have criminal records, that grows to 75% of the young men and women ages 17 to 24 are ineligible to join the military. at the end of the day, whether...