Rigorous training, determination, a desire to win at almost any cost and a very stretchy waistband – this is the weird world of competitive eating, which Americans even call a sport.
It’s where people eat – or mostly just swallow, barely-chewed – vast quantities of food, often supersized, within a given time in front of a crowd.
But now the world of super-eaters could finally be fit to burst as scientists have worked out the limits of what the human body can physically scoff.
And it’s a lot. With intense training, they concluded a human male could eat as much as a bear, at about 800g a minute in a short burst.
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