00:00:16with a fork these table manners don’t
00:00:19apply in the world of competitive eating
00:00:24or sometimes call speedy the goal here
00:00:29eat as much as you can in a short period
00:00:32of time ladies and gentlemen so it is
00:00:36and so it shall be let the Waffle House
00:00:39waffle waffle eating championship
00:00:47if you think the bigger the man the more
00:00:51he can eat then think again I have about
00:00:58twenty eight world record in or
00:01:00different kind of food most part of my
00:01:07record was a 550 to Louisiana acne
00:01:13oysters 65 hard boil eggs in six minute
00:01:1740 seconds 11 pound of a cheesecake 44
00:01:21lobster lobsters in 10 minute sonya
00:01:26thomas one of the top speed leaders in
00:01:29the world weighs just 105 pounds her
00:01:32nickname is black widow so this eating
00:01:41competition is all mostly about 99% it’s
00:01:45very competitive and I’m the female
00:01:49competitor and I want to beat them I
00:01:52wanna kill them I want to kill him be
00:01:55eating you know Sonia is a fierce
00:01:58competitor and I think she really likes
00:01:59us to put men in their place I think she
00:02:03gets a little bit of a kick out of that
00:02:04as for instance she is so small it looks
00:02:06as if she couldn’t finish a tin of
00:02:09cottage cheese and the guys next to her
00:02:11usually were so large it looked like
00:02:13they had their own ecosystem and yes she
00:02:15could beat them
00:02:18Sonia claims she can eat 18 pounds of
00:02:21fruit in one sitting how can a 105-pound
00:02:25woman eat almost one-sixth of her body
00:02:28weight over time the stomach
00:02:33progressively becomes more and more
00:02:35dilated that this is an acquired
00:02:40adaptation that resulted from endless
00:02:44training discipline and willpower
00:02:46however she does it Black Widow often
00:02:50beats men at least twice her size the
00:02:52intense competition regularly draws
00:02:55hundreds of spectators this attention on
00:02:58gorging mass quantities of food worries
00:03:01dietitians like Mariana lupus from a
00:03:04health perspective it’s important that
00:03:07they are doing things like having the
00:03:09cholesterol checked and and taking an
00:03:11active stance in their health plans my
00:03:14concern from a nutrition perspective is
00:03:16that speed eating or competitive eating
00:03:18kind of glamorizes the notion of over
00:03:20consumption of food glamorous or not
00:03:23it’s unlikely we’ll be seeing Sonia in
00:03:26the Olympics anytime soon I always
00:03:30dreamed one day that we would be in the
00:03:32Olympics and my hopes were dashed on
00:03:36that the IOC president Jacques Rogge has
00:03:41been you know dismissive at best and
00:03:45refuses to return any of our phone calls
00:03:48you know I’ve moved on
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