 Offered a high-calorie diet and kept in their cells almost around the clock, many detainees at Guantanamo Bay are becoming fat.
Meals totaling a whopping 4,200 calories per day are brought to their cells — U.S. government dietary guidelines recommend 2,000 to 3,000 calories per day for weight maintenance — and some inmates are eating everything on the menu.
Probably the first time in their lives they've had so much."More pudding, Mahmoud?"
"[Urp!] No thankew! If I eat another bite I'm gonna explode!" |
One detainee has almost doubled in weight, to 410 pounds (186 kilograms), Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand, spokesman for the detention facilities, said Monday.
| Try and fit that kinda bulk into an exploding Yugo... |
Human rights groups attribute the weight gain to lack of mobility in the detainees' small cells.
You knew that was coming - damn whiners.
They cite accounts of released detainees who complained of being allowed to exercise fewer than three times a week.
| Tusk tusk. Just think of it as good training for an office job. |
But Durand said detainees are simply served a wide variety of food and expected to choose what appeals to them.
"What appeals to you today, Ahmed?"
"How about six or seven more scoops of chocolate marshmallow?" |
"The detainees are advised that they are offered more food than necessary to provide choice and variety, and that consuming all the food they are offered will result in weight gain," he said.
Duh |