ONE of the Queen’s elite protection soldiers has said the body positivity movement is promoting obesity and making new Army recruits SOFT.
Serving Queen’s Guard Lance Sgt Farren Morgan, 36, said the trendy movement has led to snowflake recruits performing under-par physically and “shying away” from hard graft.
Farren, who works as a physical training instructor for the Coldstream Guards in Westminster, London, insisted youngsters need to stop pretending it’s “okay” to be fat.
He said: “Recruits and candidates influenced by a lifestyle of body positivity lose sight of the importance of consistently maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle which translates into a decline in their physical performance.
“They don’t train as often as they should in their spare time, shy away from the high-intensity workouts needed to excel as a soldier, and ultimately struggle to keep up with other soldiers during military drills.
“He said: “I see it with a lot of people I know in the army. These young lads – some of them are only 16 or 17.
“I know they watch TV day in and day out. I know from my eight years of training young recruits that their brains are like sponges.
“They see these images in the media, promoting this unhealthy lifestyle – celebrities saying it’s okay to eat what you want, as long as you’re happy.
“That mis-information gets stored in their brains and they pass it on.
“In the media and online, the message received by recruits is significantly different and dangerous.
“Recruits are seeing people promote an unhealthy lifestyle of ‘body positivity’ everywhere.
“Body positivity is a lifestyle that promotes complacency and is detrimental to the lives of young soldiers and recruits.”