Competitive eating champion consumes a very large burrito in under 2 minutes in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeqRaS6YrcU .
According to this news article at http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_21046168/matt-stonie-san-jose-college-student-aims-dethrone , he is studying to become a dietitian.
However, his real life diet is much lower volume, according to http://www.gq.com/story/the-real-life-diet-of-matt-stonie-competitive-eater .
I think competitive eating is a terrible idea, especially as people are increasingly prone to develop swallowing problems and aspirate as they eat or swallow rapidly. It boggles my mind it continues to be something in any way admired.
I just learned I aspirate and am having to re-learn how to swallow, to try to reduce lung infections and pneumonias. Speech therapists help many with swallowing issues.
Ewww…
Big eater: Michael Phelps in his youth. 
I’m an atheist but gluttony is a sin, and I have no particular interest in furthering it by paying attention to it…
Maybe it’s because I’ve been on food stamps, been food insecure, and worked with kids who wouldn’t have meals if not for their free ones at school but these things absolutely disgust me. It is sickening that we’re such a food-rich country that we can literally have a sport where the only purpose is to eat as much as you can while 1 in 5 children go hungry.
Get a different hobby.
^ Every hobby costs money that could otherwise be spent feeding hungry children.
Ha! I thought that this was going to be a thread about how much their teen boy can eat when they get home from school!
Meaning: After a full breakfast, and his lunch, and a “snack” that resembles a lunch, mine still clings to the refrigerator like he hasn’t eaten in a month. No, he’s not overweight. He’s just growing past 6 feet.
But back to eating competitions . . . .
It was right around age 16 for me, when eating a large deep dish pizza was just a normal meal.
The video was silly… however there were a least a couple of times back when I was pregnant that I felt like I was eating that much food :@)
It’s not about the money, it’s about the extreme waste of food.
I really dislike wasting the food and anything that encourages gorging or unhealthy food consumption. There are already too many people with eating disorders, as well as growing #s of folks with swallowing issues.
My 2 stepbrothers would go through a box of cereal in a day. Neither was heavy, but both did sports.
I had 3 servings of filet mignon in 45 minutes as an 18 year old college sophomore while accompanying 2 graduating senior friends in the Boston area on a few party crashings for the free food. We still had room to crash a librarian’s convention at the Copley hotel for desserts which was facilitated by the librarians themselves who were quite inebriated by the time we showed up.
I plead youthful indiscretion and ravenous hunger. 
Due to greatly increasing my level of physical activities during freshman year of college while forgetting to eat at times due to being so engrossed in academic studies/ECs/campus activities…I ended up losing 15 pounds to the horror of my parents and older relatives.
Ended freshman year weighing ~120ish at a smidgen under 6’.
“Ha! I thought that this was going to be a thread about how much their teen boy can eat when they get home from school!”
Me too! Coming from a house of sisters, that was an eye opener for me. Seeing the athletes in a college dining hall piling multiple chicken-fried steaks on the tray reminded me why my dining plan was so expensive.
In college, we girls learned never share a pizza with the guys because you are lucky if you get one tiny slice. The girls would order their own pizza.
Not a parent but know how much boys in high school can eat.
As a freshman, I once watched a kid throw away a sandwich half-eaten. One guy reached into the trash (which was disgusting), pulled it out, and ate it.
It wasn’t only college athletes who’d pile on multiple main entrees in the dining hall. Many of us then growing young men did the same including yours truly.
It’s possible it was done as a dare by other male peers as a way to show whether one had machismo or not.
Sounded very similar to what some older boys in my old neighborhood did to test younger boys by shoving live roaches/waterbugs right in front of their faces to see if they reacted nonchalantly or with squeamishness. If one reacted squeamishly or worse…screamed…one lost and was regarded as a “sissy” and lost any cred with male peers in the old neighborhood.
And it wasn’t restricted to males/masculinity.
Once, an older aunt saw squeamishness to the point of paralysis from an older male cousin and his wife upon seeing a roach crawl on a bathroom floor next to the garage. She just took her bare hand, smashed it, and flushed the squashed bug down the toilet. She didn’t see what was such a big deal and felt it showed they have become “too pampered” in the upper-middle class suburban life they became accustomed to from adolescence onward.