Bruce Hopkins, a Bondi Beach lifeguard (3,700 kcals)(01 of11)
Open Image Modal"Bruce Hopkins, a Bondi Beach lifeguard, with his typical day's worth of food in Sydney, New South Whales, Australia. The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of February was 3700 kcals. He is 35 years of age; 6 feet tall, and 180 pounds. Hopkins eats moderately, rarely if ever eats fast food, and drinks alcohol only when he and his wife go to dinner with friends." (credit:© Peter Menzel http://www.menzelphoto.com/ )
Marble Moahi, a mother living with HIV/AIDS (900 kcals)(02 of11)
Open Image Modal"Marble Moahi, a mother living with HIV/AIDS, in the family kitchen in Kabakae Village, Ghanzi, Botswana with her typical day's worth of food and antiretroviral medications. The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in March was 900 kcals. She is 32 years of age; 5 feet, 5 inches tall; and 92 pounds." (credit:© Peter Menzel http://www.menzelphoto.com/ )
Willie Ishulutak, an Inuit soapstone carver (4,700 kcals)(03 of11)
Open Image Modal"Willie Ishulutak, an Innuit soapstone carver in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada with one day's typical food, and drink. The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of October was 4700 kcals. He is 29 years of age; 5 feet, 9 inches and 143 pounds."[sic] (credit:© Peter Menzel http://www.menzelphoto.com/ )
Sitarani Tyaagi, an ascetic Hindu priest (1,000 kcals)(04 of11)
Open Image Modal"Sitarani Tyaagi, an ascetic Hindu priest, with his typical day's worth of food at an ashram in Ujjain, India. The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of April was 1000 kcals. He is 70 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 103 pounds. Sitarani Tyaagi is one of thousands of ascetic Hindu priestscalled Sadhus that walk the country of India and receive food from observant Hindus." (credit:© Peter Menzel http://www.menzelphoto.com/ )
Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight (3,800 kcals)(05 of11)
Open Image Modal"Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight with her typical day's worth of food in her adobe kitchen house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw." (credit:© Peter Menzel http://www.menzelphoto.com/ )
Curtis Newcomer, a U.S. Army soldier (4,000 kcals)(06 of11)
Open Image Modal"Curtis Newcomer, a U.S. Army soldier, with his typical day's worth of food at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 4,000 kcals. He is 20 years old; 6 feet, 5 inches tall; and 195 pounds. During a two-week stint before his second deployment to Iraq, he spends 12-hour shifts manning the radio communication tent (behind him)." (credit:© Peter Menzel http://www.menzelphoto.com/ )
Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba tribeswoman (1,500 kcals)(07 of11)
Open Image Modal"Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba tribeswoman, sits outside the house at her father's village with her youngest son and her typical day's worth of food." Her two meals of the day consist of cornmeal porridge with sour whole milk and she'll drink sour whole milk throughout the day. (credit:© Peter Menzel http://www.menzelphoto.com/ )
Aivars Radzins, a forester and beekeeper (3,100 kcals)(08 of11)
Open Image Modal"Aivars Radzins, a forester and beekeeper, wearing his bee-kleeping clothes, with a smoker and his typical day's worth of food in his backyard in Vecpiebalga, Latvia." Breakfast is sour rye bread with honey and butter; a hard-boiled egg; homemade pork meatballs and coffee. Dinner is fried homemade pork meatballs, boiled potato and onion with sour cream, two kinds of salad, more rye bread and Lauku Kvass. (credit:© Peter Menzel http://www.menzelphoto.com/ )
Mariel Booth, a professional model and New York University student (2,400 kcals)(09 of11)
Open Image Modal"Mariel Booth, a professional model and New York University student, at the Ten Ton Studio in Brooklyn with her typical day's worth of food. The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a day in the month of October was 2400 kcals. She is 23 years of age; 5 feet, 9.5 inches tall; and 135 pounds. At a healthier weight than when modeling full-time, she feels good but laments that she's making much less money." (credit:© Peter Menzel http://www.menzelphoto.com/ )
Takeuchi Masato, a professional sumo wrestler (3,500 kcals)(10 of11)
Open Image Modal"Takeuchi Masato, a professional sumo wrestler whose ring name is Miyabiyama (meaning "Graceful Mountain"), with his day's worth of food in the team's practice ring in Nagoya, Japan." He eats 3,500 kcals a day. Lunch is fried chicken, chanko nabe (traditional sumo wrestler's stew) with pork, vegetable tempura, cabbage egg and stewed chicken and white rice. (credit:© Peter Menzel http://www.menzelphoto.com/ )
Shashi Kanth, a call center worker (3,000 kcals)(11 of11)
Open Image Modal"Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, with his day's food in his office at the AOL call center in Bangalore, India. He is 23 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches; and 123 pounds. His average daily intake is about 3,000 calories. Like many of the thousands of call center workers in India, he relies on fast-food meals, candy bars, and coffee to sustain him through the long nights spent talking to Westerners about various technical questions and billing problems." (credit:© Peter Menzel http://www.menzelphoto.com/ )