What Does WebMD Think of Eating Competitions?
There are a lot of questions on the health of this sport. Some of the training methods are pretty extreme, as well as the fact that people are stuffing huge sums of food into their stomach in relatively short periods of time (10-12 minutes). I was looking over their site and I found a few things that they have found to be a concern that you may want to be aware of.
Vomiting
If your training methods end up causing you to vomit all the time than you’re really going to need to address this. Vomiting plays a very simple role in our body, but if it is happening all the time for your training than you’re causing problems.
Water Intoxication
For the most famous training method of drinking a gallon of water in a few minutes, you could be causing problems. Just as competitors take in a lot of water during the competition as well. Too much water is a bad thing. There was a radio competition where they had the contestants see who could drink the most water. Well, one of them died.
Binge Eating
If your eating style is very binge like, than you can cause some forms of stomach perforations. This happens when you have an ulcer in your stomach that you didn’t know about.
I hope this gives you a good insight into the problems that could be caused with training and eating competitions in general. That’s why I always recommend that you talk to your doctor to make sure you should be trying these things out.