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On the weekend of July 4th, Joey Chestnut broke his own world record for eating hot dogs. eating 75 hot dogs (with buns) in 10 minutes at a food contest. Miki Sudou established women's record - 48 hot dogs.
For the past several months, Dr.Smoliga, professor at High Point University in North Carolina, veterinarian and specialist in exercise, worked on a mathematical analysis of the maximum number of hot dogs that a person could theoretically eat in 10 minutes.
He has now published a complete analysis based on 39 years of historical competition data, as well as on mathematical models of human activity that take into account the potential for extreme sports achievements.
Based on body weight, doctors show that the world's most competitive hot dog eaters could equal to a grizzly bear or a coyote in the amount of food consumed and at the same time they would be far behind a wolf or a Burmese python.
Yet these outlandish human food contests pale in comparison to the gray wolf's ability to eat roughly 11 hot dogs per minute. Humans are not as close to food as the Burmese python, which can consume up to 75 percent of its weight in a single meal.
How many hot dogs a python can swallow in 10 minutes has not been scientifically proven.
The main factor limiting the amount of food a person (or animal) can eat is the stomach's ability to stretch to accommodate the volume of food.
In 2007, a study examined the digestive tracts of two men - one lover competition, the other - an ordinary volunteer - when they entered the hot dog modeling competition in laboratories. Control subject stopped after seven hot dogs, stating that he would feel bad if he eats another bite. The Devourer threw 36 pieces.
The study found that the most striking difference between the two men was that the stomach of a competitive eater had tremendous stretching capacity, and that food, eaten during the test stayed in the stomach rather than emptying into the intestines, said senior study author Dr.David Metz, professor of medicine at the Pennsylvania Hospital university.
This performance curve implies that the abdominal muscles of competing eaters may lose the ability to contract to their original size. That's not the only safety issue - at least seven people died of suffocation during a food contest.