U.S. government program helps refugees eat right and exercise - from TRUNEWS

(TRUNEWS) Taxpayer money is now being used for an exercise program for refugees.

The Washington Free Beacon has reported the National Institutes of Health is spending more than $1.6 million to send “community partners” into mosques to discuss physical activity with the immigrants.

The researchers who have touted this idea after conducting a five-year study believe the refugees, who they claim are healthy when they get to the U.S., will eventually adopt the eating habits of Americans and become unhealthy.

“Across many measures, immigrant and refugee populations arrive in the US healthier than the general population, but the longer they reside in the US, the more they approximate the cardiovascular risk profiles of the general population,” the grant states. “These declines are mediated, in part, by less physical activity and lower dietary quality upon immigration among both adults and their children.”

The researchers pushing the program also claimed refugees reported being “embarrassed” when it comes to exercise. Some foreign men said they feel uneasy wearing “unfamiliar” clothes in public.

The study seems to be in conflict with recent reports that many of the 3,000 Somali, Burmese and Iraqi refugees recently resettled in Minnesota came to the U.S. with diseases, which include tuberculosis, parasitic infections, hepatitis, and syphilis.

While the government spends money on health programs for immigrants, most Americans are concerned not enough is being done to screen them as they enter the country.  FBI Director James Comey admitted during a Congressional hearing last October that the refugees are not properly vetted.

FBI Director James Comey Jr. testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington December 9, 2015. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Tens of thousands of Syrians are expected to arrive in the U.S. this year, and the Obama administration wants to increase that number.

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