The competitive sport of eating is growing across the UK. We explore this extreme world where gluttony is good and gorging leads to greatness. Among many others, we’ll meet a 7 and a half stone dynamo who can eat hamburgers faster than anyone else on the planet and somebody who won the coveted title in the World Pie Eating Championships in Wigan. What drives these people? What does it do to their bodies? And what does the growing craze say about Britain’s relationship with food?