In a number of countries around the world, the recommended caloric intake is 2000-2500 calories a day. They say that the average American consumes about 2800 calories a day, clearly overutilizing the earth’s precious resources. But some Americans are much, much worse than that. Here’s one who consumes 12,000 calories a day. NY Post:

Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase “Breakfast of Champions” by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.

At lunch, Phelps gobbles up a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread - capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

For dinner, Phelps really loads up on the carbs - what he needs to give him plenty of energy for his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week regimen - with a pound of pasta and an entire pizza. He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

It’s shocking that this much eating is still legal in the world. Americans are only 4% of the world population, and eating 12,000 calories a day is clearly not an environmentally responsible practice.

One of our presidential candidates said: “We can’t…eat as much as we want…and then just expect that every other country’s going say OK.” Hmmm — was he talking about the French?

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