Better get them on Weight Watchers
or they'll start looking like chubs.
Posted on 10/03/2006 2:22:56 PM PDT by Y0K
Fueled by a high-calorie diet, detainees at Guantanamo Bay are becoming fat. Most of the prisoners arrived at the military prison in southeast Cuba slightly underweight but have since gained an average of 20 pounds (9 kilograms), and most are now "normal to mildly overweight or mildly obese," Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand, spokesman for the detention facilities, said Monday. One detainee's weight has almost doubled to 410 pounds (186 kilograms), Durand said. U.S. officials assess whether detainees are overweight by calculating their body-mass index, a measurement of weight in relation to height. Human rights groups attribute the weight gain to lack of mobility in the detainees' small cells. They also cited accounts of released detainees who said they were at times allowed to exercise fewer than three times a week. The detainees' meals total a whopping 4,200 calories per day. U.S. government dietary guidelines for weight maintenance recommend 2,000 to 3,000 calories per day. Inmates at U.S. federal prisons receive about 2,900 calories a day, said Michael Truman, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, who added that weight gain is studied only where it poses a health risk, though it does not appear widespread. "Most of them keep themselves in pretty good shape," he said. Durand said detainees are served a wide variety of food and expected to choose what appeals to them. "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.
About 460 detainees are currently at Guantanamo, including some held for more than four years on suspicion of links to al-Qaida and the Taliban.
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Are they given smokes too?
It's a wonderful idea: capital punishment through fatty foods and excessive carbohydrates. No needles, no appeals, just clogged arteries.
Hummmm is that considered torture?
First Red Hot Chili Peppers music, now excessive food offerings! What inhumane forms of torture will the evil United States perpetrate next?
Try to escape now, Fatty!
--and about the same time frame--
Just like something out of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Gulag, or some mad regime like Pol Pot's.
I say give them nothing but bread spread with lard and water.
* sigh *
Of course, the fact that terrorists are getting fatter while in US custody is just more evidence that they're mistreated.
They need to go on the Kerry Diet.
HOLY SH*T! HE DONE BLOWN UP!
I remember early on hearng that the detaiees were complaining about not liking the food. It appears they were liars liars pants on fire's!
"The food's awful, and it comes it such small portions!"
Watch out, he'll sit on the guard...
How about pork and wine?
And nothing else.
Of course, the fact that terrorists are getting fatter while in US custody is just more evidence that they're mistreated.
It probably also means they have been given medical treatment for parasites, ringworm and other intestinal disorders they probably had, not to mention clean water to drink and hot water and soap to wash their hands after they use a real TOILET rather than squatting in the dirt. All part of the modern world they find so revolting.
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