Wow! That's great. You're one of the few people who can eat all they want and still maintain a healthy weight. Good for you.

However, consuming vegetables and fruits still helps to lower the risk of cancer and other ailments. So even if you don't do it for weight reasons, there are still plenty of other reasons why people should be eating healthy.

I thought I was the only "oldie" besides Orph at the SnarkPit, but apparently, older gamers and mappers are not that uncommon.

Fool sloth, Muscle weighs way more than Fat.

Think of what he said logically. He got more muscular but stayed the same. Now surely if he got more muscly, but muscle weighed less than fat, then he would not only lose the weight of the fat, but would only gain a tiny proportion in muscle, so in theory he would be lighter.

If muscle weighs more (as it does) then he loses all his fat, and gains a bit of muscle. He wouldn't gain as much muscle as he had fat (in size terms), but in mass terms it would be almost the same.

Yeah Satchmo, i'm an oldie too. I'll be 35 next month.

I remember seeing cigarette commercials when I was a kid. Back when they were still considered "semi-acceptable". Now there just advertised on billboards and in magazines for the most part. I wonder if 20 years from now fast food commercials will no longer exist, or at least be severely regulated or minimized. It's going to be interesting to see. I feel strongly that America's (in particular) overweight issue is quickly coming to a head.

When I was as old as my late 20's I could eat anything under the sun and not gain an ounce. These days I really need to be critical of what I eat. I'm also in the Marine Corps so I guess i'm somewhat forced to stay in good physical condition, but that hasn't stopped me from gaining 20 pounds since I joined in 1995. Yes, it's time for me to exercise more and eat healthier. I weigh 165 now and i'm 5' 10".

You made a good point earlier about having a plate of fruit on the dining room table to eat if someone has the munchies. Damn good idea. As a matter of fact, I went to the fridge the other day and took out an apple. I haven't eaten one in years and it tasted great. Kinda sad, this day and age we live in. I admire your proffesion, Satchmo.

I've looked into the Alkaline diet which my wife has pointed out to me and we're going to do 75% alkaline foods and 25% acidic. Should help us out.

The average weight and height for a fourteen-year-old male is 51 kg (113 lb) and 164 cm (65 in) respectively. Here is an useful link if anyone is curious about his/her weight: http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/

And if anyone uses a Palm OS PDA, this is the program I use to calculate BMI and growth: http://www.statcoder.com/growthcharts.htm (it's a free program).

So I think some Pit members are potentially overweight without realizing it.

Yeah, I'd like to think that too. But unfortunately it's not true. The brain does use a lot of energy, but there is no difference between smart and stupid people in their brain's energy consumption.

I'd like to think that mapping burns a lot of calories too (from firing all those neurons), but that ain't true either. It does, however, make you smarter though. I believe it enhances spatial comprehension.