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Tracking The Starburst Eating Analyst

By Linette Lopez
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Yesterday, Dealbreaker's Bess Levin broke the crucial story of a young, hopeful Wall Street analyst and his quest to eat 500 Starbursts in 12 hours.

We scoffed at him, but after much thought, and some interesting commentary, we realized that his feat was indeed admirable and deserving of a Wall Street food challenge.

Check this out (from our awesome reader, PE_Feeds):

Some math:

1. 50g sugar=1 Starburst.
2. 500 Starbursts = 25,000g sugar.
3. Recc daily intake=40g.
4. 62,400% over the daily intake.

Diabetes, anyone?

See? Tough, the only problem is that he's taken his live feed of the event down. Now we have no idea what happened. Can someone let us know please?

Thanks, you're a Life Saver.

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Linette Lopez
Linette Lopez
Linette was a senior correspondent at Business Insider who focused her writing on tech, finance and economics as well as international relations. She also conducted investigations into controversial companies, like Tesla.She joined BI in the summer of 2011 after graduating from Columbia University's School of Journalism and holds a BA from Columbia University, where she finished her undergraduate education in 2008.In 2017 she won the Folio 'Rising Star' award for top women in media. In 2020 she won the 'Excellence in Financial Journalism' Award in opinion writing from NYSSCPA for a piece on US-China relations, 'The Huawei indictment marks the end of US and China's cycle of trust.' In 2023 she won the New York Press Club award for commentary in digital journalism for a series of stories about the stock market's decline in 2022.She contributes to "Marketplace," a radio show from American Public Media, and can be seen on MSNBC and CNN.Some stories by Linette:
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