1,300 Mexico City Cops Put on a Diet

Police officers in Mexico City love tacos and sandwiches a little too much. So city officials, worried about the bulk of their police force, are putting cops on a diet.

Mexico’s capital city has encouraged 1,300 of its fattest officers to watch what they eat.

Officials say roughly 70% of its 70,000 cops are overweight, and they want them to eat less tacos and more vegetables.

The plan will include blood and cholesterol tests to help develop personalized diets.

Mexico is rapidly become one of the world’s most bulbous countries, nipping on the heels, or cankles, of the United States. Nearly 50% of Mexico’s 110 million citizens are overweight.

So the last thing you want are police officers passing out after chasing a pickpocket ten feet down the road.

Via the Associated Press.

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