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How eating contests turn nausea into entertainment

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Shoving sixty hot dogs down your throat is profoundly unpleasant, but the cameras love it. Broadcasts of eating contests actively emphasize visible physical distress, sweating, and near-regurgitation, framing basic biological rejection of excessive food as a heroic struggle of human willpower.

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