Jason Fagone on competitive eating injuries
(From Jason Fagone & megamunch) Jason Fagone wrote an article about the health issues facing competitive eaters for slate.com.
The apparent frivolity of competitive eating has always colored our response to its bad health outcomes. An eating injury or death has never seemed tragic or heroic, just … sad. Kobayashi’s injury ought to change that. It deserves to move competitive eating past the joke/jeremiad dichotomy and into the framework of actual sport—with all of sport’s narrative dignity, its metaphorical richness, and, most importantly, its empathy for the human bodies it churns through and spits out. The squeak of the Tsunami’s jaw grinding against its joint isn’t the sound of a freak meeting his end. It’s the sound of his sport limping, heavy-gutted and mumble-mouthed, into a new Golden Age.
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Mike Offen said
July 3, 2007 @ 9:08 pm
Fangone’s article is excellent. Ruptured stomach is quite scary. It is fatal . It seems that everyone in competitive eating lives in a state of denial not realizing they are headed to an early grave. Maybe some are on a suicide mission. If you look at pictures before and after of eaters that started in competitive eating some years ago ,they have put on more and more weight and a rare few stay fit and trim.
Anonymous said
July 3, 2007 @ 10:36 pm
Yes Rich Lefevre, Sonya Thomas, and Tim Janus are really obese arent they?
Luther
Anonymous said
July 4, 2007 @ 2:52 am
Ok, that’s fine, but what about the clogged arteries and high cholesterol and all kinds of other issues that can arise. What’s going on with these eaters blood work…… is the real question? What would their lab values reveal?
Carey Poehlmann said
July 4, 2007 @ 9:09 am
Oh, cool. Mike, I was looking for old photo’s of all the eaters before they got into it. Can you give me a link to the ones you are referring to in that last comment?
Anonymous said
July 4, 2007 @ 9:18 am
It would be more interesting to see what’s happening inside an eaters body after 2-3 years of competitive eating, than just how they look on the outside
Anonymous said
July 4, 2007 @ 9:42 am
How did Fagone become an authority all of a sudden and maybe he should check out his own diet and health.
Luther
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