Comments on: Don't Try This at Home… or Anywhere Else http://www.thehealthblog.com/dont-try-this-at-home-or-anywhere-else/ A blog about proper health and nutrition habits Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:45:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Kelly http://www.thehealthblog.com/dont-try-this-at-home-or-anywhere-else/#comment-86 Kelly Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:56:32 +0000 http://thehealthblog.com/?p=54#comment-86 Oh dear. Nothing could be farther from the truth, Diana. As stated earlier I'm very glad to hear that the most dangerous competitions are no longer taking place. I understand that we don't share a sense of humor. That much is crystal clear. It's fine. But don't accuse me of wishing death on anyone. That's just not right. There is already much anger and misfortune in this world; it's certainly not necessary to seek it out and imagine it here, of all places! Anyway, I hope that you discover something today that makes you smile. Oh dear. Nothing could be farther from the truth, Diana. As stated earlier I’m very glad to hear that the most dangerous competitions are no longer taking place. I understand that we don’t share a sense of humor. That much is crystal clear. It’s fine. But don’t accuse me of wishing death on anyone. That’s just not right. There is already much anger and misfortune in this world; it’s certainly not necessary to seek it out and imagine it here, of all places! Anyway, I hope that you discover something today that makes you smile.

]]> By: Diana http://www.thehealthblog.com/dont-try-this-at-home-or-anywhere-else/#comment-85 Diana Sun, 20 Aug 2006 08:08:45 +0000 http://thehealthblog.com/?p=54#comment-85 To each his own is what I say. I can understand that the sheer volume and gross factor is what attracts people to it, but I don't think it's right for some (ahem Kelly) to wish or suggest death just because someone can eat 53 hot dogs. To each his own is what I say. I can understand that the sheer volume and gross factor is what attracts people to it, but I don’t think it’s right for some (ahem Kelly) to wish or suggest death just because someone can eat 53 hot dogs.

]]> By: Jay http://www.thehealthblog.com/dont-try-this-at-home-or-anywhere-else/#comment-84 Jay Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:09:21 +0000 http://thehealthblog.com/?p=54#comment-84 Can you imagine the dump that guy took? I mean his lg. and sm. intestine must be freaking GREASED!! He better have a really good plunger! Can you imagine the dump that guy took? I mean his lg. and sm. intestine must be freaking GREASED!! He better have a really good plunger!

]]> By: Kelly http://www.thehealthblog.com/dont-try-this-at-home-or-anywhere-else/#comment-83 Kelly Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:23:16 +0000 http://thehealthblog.com/?p=54#comment-83 I had a feeling that this story might affect people the same way it did me. Sorry. Besides the sheer gross-out factor, it's also pretty shameful when you think about how there are people starving in this world. And comparably they get very little attention, very few hot dogs. On the bright side (if you have a dark sense of humor), competitve eating does have a Darwin Award winner or two. In bar in the town of Volgodonsk, Russia decided to have a vodka drinking contest in 2003. Can anyone guess what happened? Yep, you nailed it! The guy drank one and half liters of vodka in less than 40 minutes and dropped dead 20 minutes later. Runners-up were rushed to the hospital and five had to stay in the ICU ward. Yikes! Hopefully people learned their lesson. In another eating contest in the 1990s, they had the bright idea to drink raw eggs. Guess what happened? Well, almost... The amount of cholesterol in the eggs caused the winner to suffer a stroke. I don't know the details of that event but rumor has it that the guy survived and fully recovered. Fortunately, the International Federation of Competitive Eating expunged the "raw egg" record from its books and that item is not legal in any IFOCE contests. I had a feeling that this story might affect people the same way it did me. Sorry. Besides the sheer gross-out factor, it’s also pretty shameful when you think about how there are people starving in this world. And comparably they get very little attention, very few hot dogs.

On the bright side (if you have a dark sense of humor), competitve eating does have a Darwin Award winner or two. In bar in the town of Volgodonsk, Russia decided to have a vodka drinking contest in 2003. Can anyone guess what happened? Yep, you nailed it! The guy drank one and half liters of vodka in less than 40 minutes and dropped dead 20 minutes later. Runners-up were rushed to the hospital and five had to stay in the ICU ward. Yikes! Hopefully people learned their lesson.

In another eating contest in the 1990s, they had the bright idea to drink raw eggs. Guess what happened? Well, almost… The amount of cholesterol in the eggs caused the winner to suffer a stroke. I don’t know the details of that event but rumor has it that the guy survived and fully recovered. Fortunately, the International Federation of Competitive Eating expunged the “raw egg” record from its books and that item is not legal in any IFOCE contests.

]]> By: Sarah http://www.thehealthblog.com/dont-try-this-at-home-or-anywhere-else/#comment-82 Sarah Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:37:12 +0000 http://thehealthblog.com/?p=54#comment-82 Grosssss! I want to throw up just thinking about it. Grosssss! I want to throw up just thinking about it.

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