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Now that obesity (and the related health problems that stem from it) has surpassed smoking as the leading preventable cause of death in this country, I wonder if the Tribune would publicize a chain-smoking contest as enthusiastically as it covered the competitive eating contest. Particularly distressing, given the fact that millions of Americans still go hungry each day, was this sentence: “For enthusiasts, the contests are spectacles of gorging, a guilty pleasure where they can watch men and women down more food in 10 minutes than a family of four eats in a day.”
I cannot imagine the sense of bewilderment that a person for whom eating is a luxury would likely feel after reading this article.
