How can competitive eaters digest and eat all that food in one sitting?

Question

How can competitive eaters digest and eat all that food in one sitting?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Your stomach is a muscular organ and is able to expand and shrink based on use. Competitive eaters train to expand their stomachs to hold more food.

Also when you eat the food is held and broken down by acids in your stomach for hours before it passes through your intestines to be actually digested. This means that technically the competitive eaters are probably not digesting anything during the meal.