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Competitive Speed-Eating

By The Daily Dish
Jul 9 2008, 8:42 AM ET

59 hot dogs in ten minutes, followed by a 5 hot dog run-off. Some seem more gifted at this kind of thing than others:

“His stomach now appeared as a massively distended, foodfilled sac occupying most of the upper abdomen, with little or no gastric peristalsis,” they wrote in their paper. Levine said the stomach was like no healthy stomach he’d seen in his 30-year career. He compared it to a “giant balloon that looks like it has no limit.” The eater’s previously flat belly swelled out as if he were pregnant.

The runner-up has killer abs.



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