No less than 1,500 officers and career military personnel will be taking part in the military’s new campaign to encourage personnel to lose weight and get into shape. The campaign is being marketed under the banner “Maintaining a Healthy Life”.

The program will include career personnel, officers and non-commissioned officers ages 26 and older, in 25 different military bases. It is directed at those IDF members who have been checked and determined to be overweight. It is primarily directed at those whose BMI (Body Mass Index) rating of 28 or over.

The program is being supervised by the IDF’s chief medical officer, working with the army’s team of combat fitness training professionals. A personal program will be designed for each person, including a nutrition program to assist in properly governing one’s food intake in line with one’s current military position, combat verses an office position.

At the end of the Gregorian year, all those involved in the program will be weighed-in and the base that lost the most combined weight will be rewarded and the personnel who lost the most will be personally rewarded.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)