Tim Brown offers advice in the Chicago Tribune
In today’s edition of the Chicago Tribune, Tim “Gravy” Brown offers some hot dog eating contest tips
Brain training. Competitive eaters override brain signals that tell them they’re full, and if you want to eat faster, you need to do the same before you slow down. “You have to trick yourself,” says Brown, who also packs an iPod with books on tape or punk rock to distract himself. “You just want to concentrate.” His brain and gut rewired, Brown finds, “I never get full. I don’t get hungry. But that doesn’t mean I don’t love to eat.”