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Friday, July 18, 2008

 
*AN OPINION BY A READER

Stop glorifying eating contest, Americans already too overweight

I agree wholeheartedly with letter writer LuAnn Dunham Doty, who volunteers at a food pantry and is disgusted by your coverage of food eating contests. I would take it one step further. I plead with all organizations that hold these gorging contests: Please stop! In a country of overweight people battling major health problems, why glorify and reward gulping copious amounts of junk food down one's gullet in record speed?

--Jean Kwas

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