What medical problems can competitive eaters develop?

What medical problems can competitive eaters develop?

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...

I would think that all the things that are connected with the pitfalls of over eating really. Competitive eating itself is safe if somebody does it once or twice a month. You know, or every two months, and they otherwise take care of themselves. Now for the individual that's competing every week, and they're doing this foolish training that I talked about before. A person like that can develop all the problems that you would develop with over eating, diabetes, that's a system wide disease it impacts on the entire body. You know I don't want to mention names but there are some eaters who had developed that. I know that it has to be in your genes, but I think it makes sense that if you're taking in those kinds of calories, and you have a predisposition to being diabetic. That it's just going to enhance that. And obviously, being overweight impacts on your entire structural system. If you're overweight and you're staying overweight - You're less likely to be engaging in exercise as well. So you're living this kind of lifestyle simply of eating a ton of food, maybe kicking ass at events or whatever. So maybe you fashion yourself as an athlete of some sort. But you got to take care of business in terms of exercise and diet and if you keep you're keeping to about once a month you should be okay. The body is very resilient.