Why is overeating considered a competitive sport (Star Tribune, July 5)? An overeating contest? Fun and frivolity? It's disgusting. Most of what I would imagine is just a bunch of fat people waddling away from the table of too much plenty! Sport it ought not to be! But the article doesn't tell us what the eater does with his "input" afterwards. Surely, he does not let the contents of 68 hotdogs proceed through his digestive tract at 10,064 calories and 884 grams of fat -- and no fiber! As if it could proceed. Maybe the game is rigged: Maybe its sponsor is a pharmaceutical company for an over-the-counter laxative. Yeah, that's it. But worse for me is people actually do this in public. Good ol' boys bonding in full-fledged brotherly gluttony. And parts of the world are unable to get enough food to stave off hunger, let alone preventing starvation or malnutrition. LARRY LYKE, MINNEAPOLIS
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