The Chinese military says excessive masturbation and too many video games are among the reasons its physical-test failure rates have reached an \u201calarming high.\u201d<\/p>\n
The People\u2019s Liberation Army is now dishing out advice after one city saw more than half its candidates \u2014 56.9 percent \u2014 fail their physicals,\u00a0according to the BBC.<\/p>\n
PLA found that 8 percent of candidates failed because of abnormalities found in their scrotum from sitting too much. Another 25 percent flunked because of blood and urine tests.<\/p>\n
It recommended that candidates follow 10 basic principles, including exercising more, cutting out fizzy drinks and booze, limiting computer games and masturbation, not getting a tattoo and drinking clean water.<\/p>\n
The advice was instantly mocked by users on social media microblog Sina Weibo.<\/p>\n
\u201cNext year they\u2019ll be asking for circumcisions!\u201d said one user.<\/p>\n
The PLA has struggled to recruit new members, despite desperate measures to find candidates like\u00a0releasing a rap recruitment video last year.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Defense last month announced the PLA would be cut from 2 million to 1 million \u2014 a move that some believe is due to a lack of new recruits.<\/p>\n
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Source: New York Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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