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This picture was sent in from Matt last week with the message, "I think I beat Binno's plate for breakfast." In terms of sheer stupidity, Binno's is impossible to beat. But if Matt was being serious about having a better balanced meal than Binno's, I would say he managed.

"The needs of the Olympic athlete and our grandparents differ by degree, not kind." - Coach Glassman.

The cool thing about humans is we are all the same. Excluding birth defects, we share the same bones, joints, organs, muscles, and digits. Therefore our needs all fall under the same general categories. The minor differences between us account for slight degrees of variations in those practices. For example, my lungs do the same thing that Mr. Carey's lungs do. The exact conditioning my lungs have gone through is slightly different than Mr. Carey's, and therefore the degree at which our lungs do their thing with oxygen is slightly different. Mr. Carey's liver does not inhale oxygen, as far as I know. Sabal? Can you check this for me?

For nutrition it's the same thing. Protein does the same thing for my grandma as it does for Matt Fecht. Same with carbs and fat. My grandma probably walks 18 steps every day. Matt probably runs 18 miles every day. The degree at which they need those macronutrients is different, but not totally exempt. So here's the breakdown for Matt's meal:

• Protein: egg whites, cheese
• Carbohydrate: carrots, broccoli, green beans, mushrooms, mango, strawberry, pineapple
• Fat: none

While there are a lot of carbohydrate sources listed, most of them are coming from veggies, which can be loaded up on almost endlessly. The fruit takes the carbohydrate up a bit to probably a good amount for him, but it also tips things out of balance a bit on the protein side. Even with the added cheese, taking out the yolks from the eggs reduces the protein and fat, so he might be low there.

Win or loss? I give this a win even though he's off balance. The food sources are good, clean, and moderately close to being balanced.

Next time. Have some fat, and keep the yolks or add more eggs. Matt's best balance might be with slightly more carbohydrate than normal, but I think he should experiment a bit by adding more fat.