Phelps Encouraging Obesity?

Yes, we know. Michael Phelps consumes a grotesque 12,000 calories per day. Yes, we know it works for him because he burns 1000s of calories each day since he is, after all, an Olympiad. 

But Phelps's newest moneymaking scheme is to be on the box of Frosted Flakes. So now people are in an outrage. Because now someone who is clearly incredibly healthy --at least for now; wait 'til he gets older and the pizza and fried egg sandwiches catch up with him and his cholesterol and heart start screaming, "Why? Why?!"-- is promoting a clearly unhealthy cereal, creating the illusion that he eats them (which he probably does) and that this box of sugar flakes helped make him the Olympiad he is today (which in some caloric way, did, I guess).

Does Phelps have a social responsibility to promote good health and be on a box of, say, Quaker's Oatmeal or Special K? At least he's not on the cover of Cap'n Crunch or Cookie Crisps, though that seems more up his alley as an eater of Dionysian proportions.

Yes, it's sort of bothersome that he's allowing himself to be a part of the system that promotes obesity in young people. But then again, all parents have to do is NOT BUY FROSTED FLAKES FOR THEIR KIDS! People sometimes tend to forget that they have the ability to say no and take responsibility themselves.

Maybe Phelps just forgot that people are generally dumb.