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   What is competitive eating?

   • Competitive eating, or speed eating, is a sport in which participants compete against each other to eat large quantities of food, usually in a short time period. Contests are typically eight to ten minutes long, although some competitions can last up to thirty minutes, with the person consuming the most food being declared the winner.

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   What is a competitive eater?

   • In competitive eating, attention shifts from the food consumed to the act of consumption. In our media-saturated culture, the competitive eater is a Celebrity Consumer. As with the Celebrity Chef and the Celebrity Cook, celebrity is a function of the extraordinary things done with food.

   Inside the Extreme Sport of Competitive Eating

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   Is competitive eating a sport?

   • You might not think of competitive eating as a traditional sport, but those in the business definitely train like it is. Sure, it doesn't involve bicep curls and squats, but it's training nonetheless — and frankly, the gym sounds more pleasant. So what does a speed eater in training do?

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   How long is a competitive eating contest?

   • Contests are typically eight to ten minutes long, although some competitions can last up to thirty minutes, with the person consuming the most food being declared the winner. Competitive eating is most popular in the United States, Canada, and Japan, where organized professional eating contests often offer prizes, including cash.

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   Can a competitor eat a food?

   • No one is allowed to start eating until an official gives the signal. Competitors can eat the food however they want, either breaking it into pieces or just shoving it in. They can dip the food into a liquid (usually water) to make it softer. If the food has different parts, the parts do not have to be eaten together.

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   Does competitive eating make sense?

   • Competitive eating makes sense as just such behavior aimed at singularity in a world that can so easily overwhelm the individual. Although much the same can be said about competitive sports generally, competitive eating has the advantage of not requiring extensive training. It’s not the Olympics—although its promoters hope that one day it will be.

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   Competitive eating, or speed eating, is a sport in which participants compete against each other to eat large quantities of food, usually in a short time period. Contests are typically eight to ten minutes long, although some competitions can last up to thirty minutes, with the person consuming the most food being declared the winner.

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   Here’s What Competitive Eating Does to Your Body. 3 minute read. Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie compete in the 2013 Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island on July 4, 2013 in...

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   Jul 3, 2024 · Eating too much food at once—like in a speed-eating competition—can damage the body over the long haul.

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   By glorifying the extreme eating necessary to compete in eating contests, competitive eating could be contributing to these problems. The training and competing patterns of competitive eaters could also be considered signs of an actual eating disorder.

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   Sep 12, 2023 · It's an eating competition... what does it matter if you're carrying a few extra pounds? Turns out those extra pounds could cost you a win, according to the "belt of fat" theory. The theory originated with a competitive eater — a larger man named Ed Karachie — who was defeated in a hot dog eating contest by a much thinner contestant.

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   Aug 22, 2014 · At its most elemental, competitive eating is a food fight. It is transgressive. As sociologist Norbert Elias taught us in The History of Manners, the civilizing process puts ever-greater distance between food and the consumer. Competitive eating destroys that distance so carefully built up over centuries by bringing the body front and center.

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   Jun 9, 2014 · The High Art of Competitive Eating. Should competitive eaters be considered athletes? What kind of sport calls attention to such brazen gluttony and the unsettling digestive processes of the...