{"id":24807,"date":"2010-07-05T08:40:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T13:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=24807"},"modified":"2010-07-05T08:57:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T13:57:25","slug":"joey-chestnut-wins-nathans-famous-hot-dog-eating-contest-by-eating-16052-calories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/joey-chestnut-wins-nathans-famous-hot-dog-eating-contest-by-eating-16052-calories\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Chestnut Wins Nathan\u2019s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest by Eating 16,052 Calories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"joey chestnut nathan's famous hot dog eating contest\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/joey-chestnut-wins-nathan%E2%80%99s-famous-hot-dog-eating-contest-by-eating-16052-calories\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24808\" title=\"joey chestnut\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/joey-chestnut-nathans-famous-hot-dog-eating-contest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m sure most Americans had a hot dog yesterday. Some might have had two. <a title=\"joey chestnut\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/nathans-famous-hot-dog-eating-contest-yields-frightening-nutrition-facts\/\" target=\"_self\">Joey Chestnut<\/a>? He ate 54. In just ten minutes at the annual Nathan&#8217;s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, he stepped up to the table and won once again by consuming 54 hot dogs (with buns) in the time it takes to cook a few on the grill.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s one word to sum up this gastronomic spectacle: gross.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also one number to sum it up: 16,052.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the number of calories consumed in 54 Nathan&#8217;s hot dogs and 54 buns. That&#8217;s more than eight days worth of calories. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>More shocking numbers? In that ten minutes Chestnut consumed 1047.6 grams of fat, and 657.7 milligrams of sodium.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Chestnut might have actually done his body a favor, coming in under the 68 he consumed last year. His goal this year was 70 hot dogs, which would have had him slurping down 20,762 calories.<\/p>\n<p>Nutrition facts based on counts by CalorieLab for 66 hot dogs. See <a title=\"nathan's famous hot dog eating contest calories\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/nathans-famous-hot-dog-eating-contest-yields-frightening-nutrition-facts\/\" target=\"_self\">Nathan&#8217;s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Yields Frightening Nutrition Facts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure most Americans had a hot dog yesterday. Some might have had two. Joey Chestnut? He ate 54. In just ten minutes at the annual Nathan&#8217;s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, he stepped up to the table and won &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/joey-chestnut-wins-nathans-famous-hot-dog-eating-contest-by-eating-16052-calories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[97,1966,3590,1961,3589,29],"class_list":["post-24807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-food-labels","tag-hot-dogs","tag-joey-chestnut","tag-july-4th","tag-nathans-famous","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24807"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24812,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24807\/revisions\/24812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}