User blog comment:Gabool the Wild/Redwall Fatties/@comment-1479469-20100606212839

If you're going to discuss their diet in this much detail, you may as well ask why cholera isn't a bigger issue (no provision for toilets is described at any point in the series - particularly an issue with galley slaves, who should be awash in their own filth and spreading disease to the crew), how seafaring creatures avoid scurvy etc. Given the context, some things will inevitably be unaddressed. Plus, I somehow doubt ALL the Redwallers are obese.

Actually, the hygeine question's going into my blog post on unanswered questions - that's a good idea.