Speed Eating | National Geographic

eat slowly chew your food thoroughly eat
with a fork these table manners don’t
apply in the world of competitive eating
or sometimes call speedy the goal here
eat as much as you can in a short period
of time ladies and gentlemen so it is
and so it shall be let the Waffle House
waffle waffle eating championship
if you think the bigger the man the more
he can eat then think again I have about
twenty eight world record in or
different kind of food most part of my
record was a 550 to Louisiana acne
oysters 65 hard boil eggs in six minute
40 seconds 11 pound of a cheesecake 44
lobster lobsters in 10 minute sonya
thomas one of the top speed leaders in
the world weighs just 105 pounds her
nickname is black widow so this eating
competition is all mostly about 99% it’s
very competitive and I’m the female
competitor and I want to beat them I
wanna kill them I want to kill him be
eating you know Sonia is a fierce
competitor and I think she really likes
us to put men in their place I think she
gets a little bit of a kick out of that
as for instance she is so small it looks
as if she couldn’t finish a tin of
cottage cheese and the guys next to her
usually were so large it looked like
they had their own ecosystem and yes she
could beat them
Sonia claims she can eat 18 pounds of
fruit in one sitting how can a 105-pound
woman eat almost one-sixth of her body
weight over time the stomach
progressively becomes more and more
dilated that this is an acquired
adaptation that resulted from endless
training discipline and willpower
however she does it Black Widow often
beats men at least twice her size the
intense competition regularly draws
hundreds of spectators this attention on
gorging mass quantities of food worries
dietitians like Mariana lupus from a
health perspective it’s important that
they are doing things like having the
cholesterol checked and and taking an
active stance in their health plans my
concern from a nutrition perspective is
that speed eating or competitive eating
kind of glamorizes the notion of over
consumption of food glamorous or not
it’s unlikely we’ll be seeing Sonia in
the Olympics anytime soon I always
dreamed one day that we would be in the
Olympics and my hopes were dashed on
that the IOC president Jacques Rogge has
been you know dismissive at best and
refuses to return any of our phone calls
you know I’ve moved on