Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A plate piled with hot dogs atop a colored background - Ncognet0/Getty Images Not everyone spends their days pondering the brief ...

On the 240th anniversary of his country's independence, American Joey Chestnut ate 70 hot dogs in 10 minutes. A new record. "Jaws," as Chestnut is known, put down a summer's worth of cased meats at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joey Chestnut, the number one ranked competitive eater in the world, visits WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

So you want to become a competitive eater? You better start strengthening that tongue. David Becker / Getty Images for Netflix When Takeru Kobayashi entered the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest in 2001 ...

'rendered': 'Registered dietitian-nutritionists have warned that people who participate in food-eating competitions are, in the short term, at risk of choking, aspiration, bloating, pain and severe ...

The 4th of July traditional hotdog eating contest got us thinking about why food and the holiday are so intertwined. Some experts have gone deep on the subject of competitive eating. So today is one ...

So today is one of the top American holidays for eating, right? I mean, there is Thanksgiving, of course, but the Fourth of July features some serious cookouts. And don't forget the de facto Super ...