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Your stomach will inevitably grow from too much food, so here's how much you'd have to gobble at Thanksgiving to suffer from the lethal disease

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 16, 2023
'I've eaten so much I'll explode,' it's Thanksgiving.' The average American consumes somewhere between 3000 and 4000 calories per year at their Thanksgiving meal, about twice as much as the daily recommended limit. Your pants are a little too cyrical for those people. But do some eat such gigantic amounts that their stomachs actually explode?According to experts, the answer is yes - or at least, it is very likely.