I really wish I would have studied marketing when I when to college. I marvel at ideas like Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. I has universal appeal to people, and to the media -- two important needs to be a success.

The 'Casting and Reeling' class I took instead has helped me fish better but there's a lot in life that needs a marketing background whether you realize it or not.

Most of the people that enter theses eating contest actually train for them. This little asian lady was in an eating contest and stated that she norally eats one large meal a day. She trains her stomach to handle that amount of food. CRAZY!!!

Yea that is crazy! I always have wondered how they can put so much food into their bodies like that. wow!

If one trains for eating contests it makes you wonder how they can control their weight - must be like a yo yo (always up and down).

That is why I wonder how these tiny little people participate in them. Where do they put it all? Seems they would gain a lot of weight, not only from the contest itself but also from the necessary practicing as someone was saying.