"Long time strength training, becoming big stress in the jaw, it is to be accumulated."

On July 4, six-time Nathan's-hot-dog-eating champ Takeru Kobayashi will try to reclaim his title from Joey Chestnut. Last year, Chestnut set a world record at the Coney Island contest by downing 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes. In a 2007 "Sports Nut," Jason Fagone explained the brutal consequences of eating all that meat.

(Click on the pic of the dogs and the dudes for the full and over-full saga.)