Posted on 10/25/2008 7:10:12 AM PDT by LibWhacker
The sport of competitive eating was given a shocking reminder yesterday that gorging oneself with a daunting amounts of greasy food in an extremely short period of time may have negative effects on health.
A Taiwanese graduate student vying for the "Big Stomach King" contest at Dayeh University died on Tuesday just before he could claim the winning title.
The 23-year-old had chowed himself ahead of 30 other teams by consuming two buns filled with rice and cheese and helping himself to some of his teammates food as well. He was on course to win the annual campus event when he passed out and died after "relentless" vomiting, Reuters reports.
"I can't say why he died," said Huang Te-hsiang, the university's dean of affairs. "He had been in the contest before. He was a strong guy."
Had the student been victorious, he would have won NT$2,000 (~$60, £ 38).
Taiwan's education ministry has barred further campus-based eating contests while it conducts an investigation.
I am gonna guess he choked on the relentless vomiting.
Must have been something he ate.
My suspicion is that he probably died as a result of aspiration.
Eating kills. It’s that simple.
Therefore, no eating on campus, within six feet of any public building, in any public park, in any space publicly owned or devoted to public use, in bars, in restaurants, on airplanes (oh - that’s already happening), trains, buses, cabs, and in any dwelling where there are children.
Question your neighbors and friends: Is there food in your house?
Tax eaters an additional dollar on every meal they eat to support a government effort to conduct a public education program on the dangers of eating.
Witnesses reported a moose loitering in the area. The moose fled the scene when confronted.
A real gutbuster.
Two?
Oh man what a way to go! Stuff yourself like a glutton and then drown in vomit.
Well I guess those rice & cheese buns are to die for. Yum!
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