Jared Blams Nintendo and Junk Food for Weight Gain
Jared Fogle, who is best-known for the Subway diet, blames the Nintendo for the start of his weight gain back in the third grade in an article in the Columbia Daily Tribune.
Most people know part of Fogle's story, he said, but don’t realize he started gaining weight in third grade. "I can trace it back to when I was given the best birthday present of my life: a Nintendo."
At that point, Fogle said, he started playing video games more and riding his bike and playing sports less. He became sedentary. With his love of video games, he developed a love of junk food.
"I usually had one hand on the controller and one in a bag of chips," he said. By the time he reached sixth grade, he was bigger than the other children, he said, and his father, a doctor, started to worry.
"They tried restricting my Nintendo time, but I found ways to get around it," Fogle said.
Fogle's weight peaked at 425 pounds before his Subway diet and regularly walking eventually brought his weight down to 190. He is now teach a nutrition class an the University of Missouri-Columbia.
