Marc Levine, the chief of gastrointestinal radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, has found that a competitive ... eating contest and used fluoroscopy, a real-time x-ray ...

Based on fluoroscopy scans during the study, the researchers found the competitive eater's stomach was capable of expanding to accommodate significantly more extra food. The control subject ate ...

Just five seconds into this self-proclaimed “Super Bowl of competitive ... took X-ray images of one speed-eater in action and ...

Based on fluoroscopy scans during the study, the researchers found the competitive eater's stomach was capable of expanding to accommodate significantly more extra food. The control subject ate ...

Following the study, the competitive eater's stomach showed it could expand as he consumed the food. 'The key to success in competitive speed eating is the ability to slowly train and adapt ...

If you want to be a champion in the world of competitive eating, there are two key factors: how fast can you get food to your stomach, and how much your stomach can hold. Normally, the human ...

conducted a 2007 study about competitive eaters, because he and his team wanted to learn whether all those hot dogs "get stuck in their stomach" or whether "they pass through their stomach into ...