Dwight Howard has been eating 24 Hershey Bars a day

Source - As CBS Sports' Ken Berger wrote in his absolutely fantastic article (seriously, go read the whole thing) on D12 and the Los Angeles Lakers' dietary habits, this is a player who was completely addicted to sugar:

It turned out that Howard was consuming the equivalent of 24 Hershey bars a day in the form of candy and soda—not to mention the additional sugar his body was making out of all the empty starches he was eating. 

The big man even spoke about his candy addiction during last year's All-Star break, perBioHealthScience.org's Adam Camara: 

Am I a big candy person? That's an understatement. My pantry is full of candy. Skittles just sent me 30 pounds of Skittles. I have a nightstand full of every candy you could think of. Skittles, blow pops, Laffy Taffy, Reese's Pieces, Kit Kats, all types of candy was in the drawer. 

How in the hell does someone eat that much candy and look like Dwight. If I ate that much candy I would be the fattest piece of shit in the world. Ben Stiller at the end of Dodgeball. All hope lost. Thirty pounds of Skittles? Imagine your own body, hideous as it may be, and then add 30 lbs of skittles to it. I always hear about athletes who never drink and after huge wins they hit the gym and do more squats. Then I think to myself their bodies are temples, I could never sacrifice that much, that's the only reason they are pros and I am not. Now I gotta find out Dwight lives in Willy Wonka's Factory and still gets paid millions?

PS He said he had more energy on the court after he changed his diet If only eating less laffy taffy helped you score in the low post...

PPS Does he have 32 cavities?