Rebecca Jackson: America's army is starved for recruits. She says millions of Americans are obese and they're just too fat to join that. Michael Dobby told her he always wanted to be in the armed forces but his weight precluded him. He went into a recruitment office and found that there was a brand new program that had literally just kicked off, she said.
Britain’s National Health Service is in crisis. Wait times are rising, nurses and paramedics are striking, and doctors are overworked—leading to hundreds of excess deaths each week. We visit the front line: a stretched GP’s surgery in Wales. We ask why Germany and Poland love to hate each other. And what America’s army is doing to slim down its overweight recruits.
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