Jabba the Muslim
Posted on 10/03/2006 3:41:04 PM PDT by SmithL
A high-calorie diet combined with life in the cell block — almost around the clock in some cases — is making detainees at Guantanamo Bay fat.
Meals totaling a whopping 4,200 calories per day are brought to their cells, well above the 2,000 to 3,000 calories recommended for weight maintenance by U.S. government dietary guidelines. And some inmates are eating everything on the menu.
One detainee has almost doubled in weight, to 410 pounds, said Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand, spokesman for the detention facilities at Guantanamo, a U.S. Navy station in southeast Cuba.
Human rights groups attribute the weight gain to lack of exercise. They cite accounts of released detainees who complained they were allowed to exercise fewer than three times a week outside their small cells.
But Durand said detainees are simply served a wide variety of food and are 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.
Most of the prisoners at Guantanamo picked up in Afghanistan and other conflict zones were slightly underweight when they arrived. Since then, they've gained an average of 20 pounds, and most are now "normal to mildly overweight or mildly obese," according to the most recent measurements, he said.
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Fatten'em up! They'll be more easily IDd in a crowd, if we ever have to let'em go.
That or all the bags of pork rinds......
I`m being Tortured reading things like this.Detainees are getting fat,are you kidding me!
You can't make this stuff up! The food Nazi's are everywhere!
Jabba the Muslim
Don't call him a fat pig! ;-)
They've never had it sooooooooooo good!! It's Bush's fault!! :)
"GET IN MAH BELLY!!
I knew some idiot would find a human rights angle to this. Would they prefer we starve them? They would be complaining if we kept the food specifically rationed per person. We just can't win.
Personally, I think we are abusing them. We are keeping them too close to the foul stench of Castro's communism. OTOH, we do put our own soldiers and sailors through that.
And it'll slow them down, too!
put 'em on a chain gang and have them do work around the base...........that'll get 'em thinned back down!!
Hey, it will just make the rope more efficient as they drop through the trap door.
Bigger targets too.
Maybe we should send Richard Simmons down there. Then they would really know what torture is.
They also can't run as fast, or as far either. Be like shooting fish in a barrel.
Hey, hey, hey, Fat Al-Bert!
Doesn't this qualify as a violation of Article 3 of the Geneva Convention? To deliberately feed people such an excess of calories sounds like an affront to human dignity to me.
hahaha..."McTerrorist"....
fat bastards
Feed them all to the sharks and no one will have to worry about tubby terrorists.....
Al-Jabba?
>>And it'll slow them down, too!
Bingo! Easier targets!
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