How often should one see their doctor if they plan to eat competitively?

How often should one see their doctor if they plan to eat competitively?

Arnie "Chowhound" Chapman (Competitive Eater) gives expert video advice on: How do you train for a competitive eating contest?; What is 'picnic style' eating in competitive eating contests?; What training techniques work best for competitive eating? and more...

Probably the recommendation is that you should come in every year for a wellness visit, and that's a strong recommendation. I think if you're competing, if you're doing events more than every two weeks, three weeks and sometimes the way events fall you may end up doing that, then you might want to make it every six months. And if he or she does a full complete physical they should be able to identify any problems that might be there. It's also very important too; that if you do have a predisposition to high blood pressure that, you keep away from pickles, keep away from high salt type items. So you can be selective and choose certain things. Competitive eating needs a lot more healthier alternatives. We need to do a lot more things - clementines and even apples and fruit type items because, I think when you overeat with that stuff you just have a bad day in the bathroom. But when you overeat with stuff that's really, really high in calories then you really start engaging in things that might have some residual effects.