MottiF:
So just curious about your opinion regarding this. Joey Chestnut has just won (again) the annual eating competition. His achievement is really impressive.
A stomach is the size of a fist and a half and in competitions such this it can swell four times or more. This creates irreversible stretching damage in the stomach tissues and it does not return to its original size. Like a rubber band that is too much stretched and doesn't shrink.
To reach these volumes the competitors training hard with eating cabbage and drink a lot of water to swell their stomachs. While most people see it as a disgusting tournament, in our community it something we really all share: the love for overeating.
But still, a study which was conducted at the University of Pennsylvania showed the damage in such “trainings”: obesity, damage to the stomach tissue, vomiting, nausea and many times surgeries to repair the stomach.
Joey has won 16 times in this challenge (out of 17) and his record is 74 sausages. Yesterday he ate a total of 10,880 calories in 10 minutes! Is not overweight so he is pushing himself hard (maybe in physical trainings?) to make sure is not gaining too much weight.
So what do you think? Will you participate in such challenges? Or participated in such tournaments?
A lot of my advice on increasing capacity is directly from the world of competitive eating. I love competitive eating stories. They are a huge turn on for me.
