Comments on: Competitive Eating? Unbelievable. http://livefitblog.com/2008/11/06/competitive-eating-unbelievable/ A Fitness Blog With Tips For Getting Fit And Healthy Living Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: John's Weight Loss Blog http://livefitblog.com/2008/11/06/competitive-eating-unbelievable/#comment-385 John's Weight Loss Blog Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:57:51 +0000 http://livefitblog.com/2008/11/06/competitive-eating-unbelievable/#comment-385 The interesting thing about competitive eating is that when it first started all of the competitors were very large men. I guess because they were prone to gluttony. But then a number of years ago what happened was very thin men like Takeru Kobayashi (and later women like Sonya Thomas, the Black Widow) got into competitive eating and they could eat far more because unlike the fat guys their stomachs had room to expand. Check out this hilarious video of Kobayashi going up against a bear in an eating contest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgqbCq_sxmo The interesting thing about competitive eating is that when it first started all of the competitors were very large men. I guess because they were prone to gluttony. But then a number of years ago what happened was very thin men like Takeru Kobayashi (and later women like Sonya Thomas, the Black Widow) got into competitive eating and they could eat far more because unlike the fat guys their stomachs had room to expand.

Check out this hilarious video of Kobayashi going up against a bear in an eating contest.

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