Yuck. His poor digestive system. I can't imagine what his poor body has to go through to regulate his blood sugar from 43 slices of pizza.

Truthfully, I don't get it. But it's his choice to participate in this competition.

What his body has to go through is what makes him an athlete. Joey Chestnut is absolutely amazing to watch. The human body may not be designed to eat 43 slices of pizza, but it's also not designed to withstand the up to 9 g's that military aviators train to handle. I think both of those attempts to push human tolerance are incredible.

A lot of people will likely criticize him for wasting food. I, personally, am much more critical of Nascar for wasting both petroleum and rubber.

Gross.

i watched something on MTV 'True Life' a while back about competitive eaters and there's a LOT that they have to go through in order to be able to do what they do so i commend them, and this is really impressive. not something that i would ever want to do mind you - but it's kind of impressive. it's like a car accident, you know that it's not a good thing, but you can't help but watch and be fascinated.

go joey! I love watching those events.

I'm still sad he beat Kobayashi at the hot dog competition... *tear*

I saw that episode too ilanac...fascinating.

And Joey is a machine!

I am waiting for the bacon wrapped hot dog contest...this should include a side of chocolate covered bacon.

What a sexy picture

A friend of mine is a competitive eater, actually ranked in the IFOCE (not high, mind you), and I saw him compete in a deep-dish pizza eating competition almost 2 years ago. It was amazing and horrifying to watch all at the same time. The guy is like 6'5" and maybe 200 lbs of pure muscle, and watching him put away a whole deep dish pizza... I mean, wow.