DOES MICHAEL PHELPS EAT CHOCOLATE?

Like all chocoholics i wondered about multiple gold medallist, swimmer, Michael Phelps' training diet and if it included chocolate. It was no easy task to track down this information but finally with a spot of luck I got it from the Sunday Times correspondent.

Michael Phelps daily intake is, believe it or not, 12,000 calories. Six times that of an average male requirement.His breakfast seems to be, as it should, his biggest and most important meal. It consisted of servings that included, porridge, three fried eggs, a five egg omelets, fried onion, lettuce and tomato sandwiches, French Toast and, here it comes three chocolate chip pancakes. He does not seem to consume any dessert for lunch or dinner.

I wont go into the recipe of the Phelps pancakes here. But no doubt, they being honest-to-goodness pancakes, will contain among the other ingredients, eggs, butter, buttermilk and probably a very liberal sprinkling of chocolate chips. A nutritionist tells that that one such pancake, wide as the inside of a plate would be around 300 to 350 calories.

All this brings to mind that the Swiss eat the most amount of chocolate in the world, nearly11kg per person per year. Wonder where Roger Federer gets his energy from? And very pleased to see that he is certainly not obese.