Why Michael Phelps isn’t a waste of food

TERRY PRONE (August 18) puts forth a very strange view of the Olympic Games and of those people who enjoy watching them.

She suggests that by reporting Michael Phelps’s diet, journalists have promoted obesity and the profligate waste of food.

Am I the only person to have read this with incredulity? Michael Phelps eats 12,000 calories a day because he trains and swims all day and, due to his muscle mass, burns far more calories than the person on the street.