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**halfstreet** · 09-01-2012, 12:48 PM

Because they eat a tremendous amount of food and then go to sleep. How many sumo wrestlers are in all of Japan? I don't think you can base anything on not even a handful of the population. Especially when they have a specialized diet and most started out taller than average and pretty husky anyway.

By the way, I thought this was a pretty interesting article on the diet of the sumo:

http://www.gastronomica.org/gastro/pages/sample4.1.html

09-01-2012, 12:48 PM	#23
halfstreet Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 498 Senior Member	Because they eat a tremendous amount of food and then go to sleep. How many sumo wrestlers are in all of Japan? I don't think you can base anything on not even a handful of the population. Especially when they have a specialized diet and most started out taller than average and pretty husky anyway. By the way, I thought this was a pretty interesting article on the diet of the sumo: http://www.gastronomica.org/gastro/pages/sample4.1.html
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