Lakers: Dwight Howard was eating a pound of sugar per day when he was on the Lakers

[Juggity]

wtf

I guess candy was how he was coping with the Lakers' tiness.

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2013/...d-sugar-lakers

Part 1 of Ken Berger's Nutrition in the NBA series, on the Lakers' burgeoning focus on healthy diets, is fascinating and well worth a thorough read. That stuff matters. There are some amazing facts in there -- chief among them the revelation that Chris Kaman willfully eats kale -- but one thing concerning former Laker Dwight Howard really stands out:

With Howard, the intervention began where it does with most athletes (and non-athletes, for that matter) who need to change their diets. It began with sugar. It turned out that Howard was consuming the equivalent of 24 Hershey bars a day in the form of candy and soda -- not to mention the additional sugar his body was making out of all the empty starches he was eating.

Now, Howard is a human being whose size and physical workload far exceed anything you or I could imagine. It's also well-known that Howard loves candy, and equally well-known that massive people with insane workout regimens can eat a lot more than the average person without exploding. But yo, using Berger's comparison: a Hershey bar contains 24 grams of sugar. The equivalent of 24 of those is 576 grams of sugar. That's 1.3 pounds. Of sugar. In a day. THAT'S SO MUCH SUGAR. THAT'S LIKE A SCARFACE MOUNTAIN OF COCAINE, EXCEPT SUGAR IN THE FORM OF CANDY AND SODA.
Glad you're eating more healthfully now, Dwight. Jeez.

[Leetonidas]

Was he hanging out with Odom in LA?

[ShowtimeFan]

Was he hanging out with Odom in LA?

Seriously, what's up with Lakers and candy?

[m>s]

don't see how that wouldn't give you diabetes

[Leetonidas]

Seriously, what's up with Lakers and candy?

tbh after recent events I think Lamar was talking about nose candy all those years

[lefty]

[Thebesteva]

Seriously, what's up with Lakers and candy?

"candy"

[Rogue]

dude needed extra energy/material to produce enough juice for his 8 something es that's why he didn't get super fat in LA despite eating excessive amounts of sugar imho

[HI-FI]

wasn't Magic eating a pound of a day with the Lakers?

[Mori Chu]

It's crazy that in this day and age they haven't pounced all over the diets of these players and straightened it out by the time they hit age 15.

[dfens]

wasn't Magic eating a pound of a day with the Lakers?

damn cold blooded

[UZER]

wasn't Magic eating a pound of a day with the Lakers?

probably...and Cookie hasn't touch since.

[Kool Bob Love]