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What Does Michael Phelps Eat for Breakfast? More Stuff Than You Eat All Day

Certainly Mr. Phelps should cause those in the nutrition left to think critically about their eat healthy be healthy mantra. There are many in the 20 something age group who eat whatever whenever without any discernable health malady. Sure Olympic atheletes are more active than the average person but are they super healthier? Do they live longer? Are they 100% disease free? Are there 200 year old former atheletes hanging out that I am unaware of?

The nutrition fact that is often missed is that all foods fit into a "healthy" diet, even chocolate chips pancakes and ham sandwiches on white. Those who villify certain foods labeling them as "junk" are fishing in an empty pond and are never able to reel in real evidence.

My nutrition advice to Mike, stick to the diet you are on for it is the "Right Nutrition".

Right Nutrition at 10:30PM on 08/18/08

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What Does Michael Phelps Eat for Breakfast? More Stuff Than You Eat All Day

Someone left a comment regarding the "empty calories" in the things Mr. Phelps was eating. Although the things he eats are not viewed as health food by the health gestapo they are far from empty calories. Just look at the results Mike is getting, he is a champion. Do a little more research next time.

Right Nutrition at 1:51PM on 08/17/08

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What Does Michael Phelps Eat for Breakfast? More Stuff Than You Eat All Day

Certainly Mr. Phelps should cause those in the nutrition left to think critically about their eat healthy be healthy mantra. There are many in the 20 something age group who eat whatever whenever without any discernable health malady. Sure Olympic atheletes are more active than the average person but are they super healthier? Do they live longer? Are they 100% disease free? Are there 200 year old former atheletes hanging out that I am unaware of?

The nutrition fact that is often missed is that all foods fit into a "healthy" diet, even chocolate chips pancakes and ham sandwiches on white. Those who villify certain foods labeling them as "junk" are fishing in an empty pond and are never able to reel in real evidence.

My nutrition advice to Mike, stick to the diet you are on for it is the "Right Nutrition".

Right Nutrition at 10:30PM on 08/18/08

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What Does Michael Phelps Eat for Breakfast? More Stuff Than You Eat All Day

Someone left a comment regarding the "empty calories" in the things Mr. Phelps was eating. Although the things he eats are not viewed as health food by the health gestapo they are far from empty calories. Just look at the results Mike is getting, he is a champion. Do a little more research next time.

Right Nutrition at 1:51PM on 08/17/08

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What Does Michael Phelps Eat for Breakfast? More Stuff Than You Eat All Day

okay... i am 13 years old and swim quite a bit in fact... i swim for the CJACs, The Barracuddas, Driftwood, and Ranney School Swim Team, year long. i love training and even though i only way 87 lbs, i still eat about 4,000 calories a day. i am still training for the 2012 olympics because i have beaten 9 Junior Olympics records and gotten golds in every event i traine d for including the 100 Butterfly which takes a lot of calories to swim. Every night before practice you eat tons and tons of emty calories... but you get used to it!!!

angelgirlans at 10:40AM on 07/29/09

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What Does Michael Phelps Eat for Breakfast? More Stuff Than You Eat All Day

Come on people, the reason 'empty calories' and 'junk food' are normally a bad thing is that, when you eat them, you're not usefully contributing to the key elements of a balanced diet, so you will end up needing to consume more food in order to get the recommended daily allowances to keep your body running in good condition.

If you live in a third world country such as India, much of your diet consists of the empty calories in white rice, and you'll probably end up with the diseases and early deaths that malnutrition brings. At the other extreme, the likely result in a Westerner is that you'll be eating more calories than you're burning, so you'll put on weight.

Once in shape, swimmers generally don't have a huge mass of muscle to build or maintain, so their requirements for proteins, vitamins, and so on are only 1-2 times those of 'normal' people [ref]. But they have a massively larger need for calories (i.e. 4-5 times), and of course the easiest way to get that massive dose of additional calories is through 'empty calories' - lots of fats and sugars.

If he were to keep the same diet once he stops swimming competitively he'd be breaking scales not records!

Chumbley at 9:08AM on 08/21/08

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What Does Michael Phelps Eat for Breakfast? More Stuff Than You Eat All Day

Oh yeah and Phelps at 6'4", wearing size 14 shoes (also used in the single kayak races later on) seems to use his calories efficiently, don't we think? as Right N points out, look at the results. And look at the man's body. Do you see an unhealthy man? He's not skinny, but he is stream-lined. He's able to swim 8 races in, what, 6 days? Breaking records (some of which he set) in every single race (one was only an olympic record, the other 7 were world records) some won thanks to 3 teammates. It does seem like lots of sugar and carbohydrates, but it clearly fuels his engine.

None of us can compare what we do and how we eat to the regimen of an elite athlete, no matter how active we are, can we? It's just flat out different for them.

Fluffnik at 2:26PM on 08/18/08

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What Does Michael Phelps Eat for Breakfast? More Stuff Than You Eat All Day

But from now on it is going to be Wheaties!!!

Stushi at 1:01PM on 08/18/08

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