50 hotdogs in one sitting...

About the "Nathans Hotdogs" eating competition held every year in
NY(?)... i think i read last year the winner ate 50 hotdogs.

At, say 180 calories each, the winner ate about 9,000 calories at once.
At 3,500 cal for a pound, that's a theoretical gain of about 2.5 lbs.
(is it just me, or does a gain of only 2.5 lbs seem very low for eating
such alot of fatty food?)

My question is... if one eats that much in one sitting, are all the
calories absorbed into the body? Or will the body eliminate (i.e. poop)
much of it out before getting stored as fat.

Not that i'm planning or would want to binge like that, but i just got
curious!

John

I would think that the body will bypass most of it.. but.. eeeeeeeeeeew
Will~

"johnb41" wrote in message
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About the "Nathans Hotdogs" eating competition held every year in
NY(?)... i think i read last year the winner ate 50 hotdogs.

At, say 180 calories each, the winner ate about 9,000 calories at once.
At 3,500 cal for a pound, that's a theoretical gain of about 2.5 lbs.
(is it just me, or does a gain of only 2.5 lbs seem very low for eating
such alot of fatty food?)

My question is... if one eats that much in one sitting, are all the
calories absorbed into the body? Or will the body eliminate (i.e. poop)
much of it out before getting stored as fat.

Not that i'm planning or would want to binge like that, but i just got
curious!

John

This sounds like one of the strange questions from my anatomy and physiology
course last semester, so I will take a shot at it.

Your body, to absorb some foods, uses transport proteins to move the
nutrients across the lining of the digestive tract and into the capillaries
and lymph system. You only have a limited number of these transport
proteins available, so once they have captured a nutrient to transport they
are unavailable until your body creates more. As such, you can only absorb
so much of a particular nutrient at any given time. For example,
cholesterols found in foods are absorbed to the lacteals of the lymph system
using these transport proteins. If you eat a large meal very high in
cholesterol, you will only absorb up to your body's maximum ability to
transport. The rest is excreted undigested.

And for the bad news... Our bodies, as we know are amazing at storing excess
intake. If this were not true, none of us would be on this news group.
So, for every 2 liters of food and drink we consume, we excrete about 150ml
.. I don't know how much percentage-wise of a quick gorging on hot dogs a
person would retain. My thought is 'why try?'.

Matt Plummer
(happy to see tuition money paying off in trivia)
"Willow Herself" wrote in
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I would think that the body will bypass most of it.. but.. eeeeeeeeeeew
Will~

"johnb41" wrote in message
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About the "Nathans Hotdogs" eating competition held every year in
NY(?)... i think i read last year the winner ate 50 hotdogs.

At, say 180 calories each, the winner ate about 9,000 calories at once.
At 3,500 cal for a pound, that's a theoretical gain of about 2.5 lbs.
(is it just me, or does a gain of only 2.5 lbs seem very low for eating
such alot of fatty food?)

My question is... if one eats that much in one sitting, are all the
calories absorbed into the body? Or will the body eliminate (i.e. poop)
much of it out before getting stored as fat.

Not that i'm planning or would want to binge like that, but i just got
curious!

John

You are assuming they don't barf it all back up after the allotted time.

Don't they have to keep it down for 10 mins or something?

Bulemia isn't much of a better option really.


"johnb41" wrote in message
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About the "Nathans Hotdogs" eating competition held every year in
NY(?)... i think i read last year the winner ate 50 hotdogs.

At, say 180 calories each, the winner ate about 9,000 calories at once.
At 3,500 cal for a pound, that's a theoretical gain of about 2.5 lbs.
(is it just me, or does a gain of only 2.5 lbs seem very low for eating
such alot of fatty food?)

My question is... if one eats that much in one sitting, are all the
calories absorbed into the body? Or will the body eliminate (i.e. poop)
much of it out before getting stored as fat.

Not that i'm planning or would want to binge like that, but i just got
curious!

John

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:42:47 GMT, "Matthew Plummer"
wrote:

This sounds like one of the strange questions from my anatomy and physiology
course last semester, so I will take a shot at it.

Your body, to absorb some foods, uses transport proteins to move the
nutrients across the lining of the digestive tract and into the capillaries
and lymph system. You only have a limited number of these transport
proteins available, so once they have captured a nutrient to transport they
are unavailable until your body creates more. As such, you can only absorb
so much of a particular nutrient at any given time. For example,
cholesterols found in foods are absorbed to the lacteals of the lymph system
using these transport proteins. If you eat a large meal very high in
cholesterol, you will only absorb up to your body's maximum ability to
transport. The rest is excreted undigested.

My version of the answer is that if you are stupid enough to eat 9000
calories at once and keep it down you will absorb 9000 calories. and
put on an appropriate amount of weight. The digestive system is
amazingly efficient at utilizing everything you throw at it.

You are right of course that the stuff that comes out of the digestive
track still contains fat/protein/sugar etc, but since calories
counting isn't an exact science it's ignorable.

There are all sorts of myths about the body only absorbing a certain
amount of protein at a time and it's just that - a myth.

If it weren't so someone would invent the "eat as many hotdogs as you
like" diet.

So, for every 2 liters of food and drink we consume, we excrete about 150ml
. I don't know how much percentage-wise of a quick gorging on hot dogs a
person would retain. My thought is 'why try?'.

Lets take a simple case of drinking 2 litres of water. Over the long
term you would excrete about 2 litres. If you didn't you'd be the
incredible shrinking man or more probably in our case the michelin
man. But maybe that's not what you meant?

Ray

"rmr" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:42:47 GMT, "Matthew Plummer"
wrote:

This sounds like one of the strange questions from my anatomy and
physiology
course last semester, so I will take a shot at it.

Your body, to absorb some foods, uses transport proteins to move the
nutrients across the lining of the digestive tract and into the
capillaries
and lymph system. You only have a limited number of these transport
proteins available, so once they have captured a nutrient to transport
they
are unavailable until your body creates more. As such, you can only
absorb
so much of a particular nutrient at any given time. For example,
cholesterols found in foods are absorbed to the lacteals of the lymph
system
using these transport proteins. If you eat a large meal very high in
cholesterol, you will only absorb up to your body's maximum ability to
transport. The rest is excreted undigested.

Lets take a simple case of drinking 2 litres of water. Over the long
term you would excrete about 2 litres. If you didn't you'd be the
incredible shrinking man or more probably in our case the michelin
man. But maybe that's not what you meant?

Ray


Ray-
You are correct and I should have been more clear on that response. The 150
ml is what is excreted as feces in most cases. There is a loss of fluids
through urination, respiration and perspiration which balances the intake in
healthy individuals.

Thanks,
Matt

"johnb41" wrote in message
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About the "Nathans Hotdogs" eating competition held every year in
NY(?)... i think i read last year the winner ate 50 hotdogs.

At, say 180 calories each, the winner ate about 9,000 calories at once.
At 3,500 cal for a pound, that's a theoretical gain of about 2.5 lbs.
(is it just me, or does a gain of only 2.5 lbs seem very low for eating
such alot of fatty food?)

My question is... if one eats that much in one sitting, are all the
calories absorbed into the body? Or will the body eliminate (i.e. poop)
much of it out before getting stored as fat.

Not that i'm planning or would want to binge like that, but i just got
curious!

John


well, what abou this??
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/200608...neticmutations

hot dogs cause genetic mutations? zoinks!!