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What Our Eating Habits Say About Us

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Nov 7 · 17 min read

I went to Shimabara because of a newspaper article. It said a young man by the name of Keigo Kirino had died at a local speed eating contest. It was a riceball that did it; a chunk which became lodged in the young man’s throat and refused to leave. He died on route to the hospital.

He was 29.

Apparently, nobody had died at a speed eating contest before. Kirino was the first…

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