The Globe and Mail

What competitive eating can tell us about our capacity to stretch human limits

Earlier this month, those among us who thought that humanity had already hit its peak got a reminder that we’re still on an upward slope. At the annual Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo shattered the ...
Yahoo Finance

Competitive eater and hot dog eating champ Takeru Kobayashi: 'I treat this like a sport'

Who holds the world record of eating 110 bunless hot dogs in 10 minutes? Better yet, who holds the championship title of consuming 337 buffalo wings within 30 minutes? None other than world champion competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi. Kobayashi got a ...
Toronto Sun

Takeru Kobayashi, competitive eating legend, retires: 'I want to repair my brain and gut'

After decades of dominance, a legend in competitive eating says he literally no longer has the hunger to keep going. Kobayashi announced his retirement in the new Netflix documentary Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut after doctors discovered his ...
The Globe and Mail

Step away from the hot dog: Should competitive eating be banned?

They train hard, they develop incredible techniques to defeat their competitors and they subject their bodies to major abuse. Competitive eaters have moved from freakshows at carnivals to the mainstream with thousands of competitions happening everywhere ...