Peter Czerwinski was born November 30, 1985, in Toronto.[4] Both his parents had health issues.[5] As a teenager, he battled against anorexia[4] and was hospitalized at Toronto's The Hospital for Sick Children. Bodybuilding was a major factor in his recovery.[4]
Czerwinski has a slower digestion rate than the average person's.[4] His daily diet comprises nine balanced meals and he exercises daily.[4] Czerwinski became aware of his talent in eating after managing to beat an eating record. Thereafter, he decided to take on more eating-related challenges and post them on YouTube.[5] Having participated in more than 90 eating competitions,[4] Czerwinski holds fourteen Guinness World Records in competitive eating, including that for eating a whole raw onion in 43.53 seconds,[6] seventeen bananas in 2 minutes, fifteen hamburgers in 10 minutes,[4] 750 millilitres of olive oil in 60 seconds,[4] and 17 Jaffa Cakes in sixty seconds.[7] He also participated in season one of Canada's Got Talent. For his performance, he ate 5 hard boiled eggs, 3 pieces of Canadian bacon, 2 bananas, and a bag of milk in 51 seconds;[8] however, he did not make it past the Toronto Auditions.
A direct-to-DVD documentary film, The Story of Furious Pete, chronicling Czerwinski's life, screened at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[9] The Furious "Pete"[10] – which consists of 20 pieces of bacon and 20 pieces of cheese, alongside a five-pound platter of fries – is named after him, after Czerwinski became the first person in 1,500 attempts to finish it.[5]
Health
Czerwinski has successfully battled testicular cancer twice in the past, both times going into remission. On February 16, 2017 he uploaded a video onto YouTube where he stated he was yet again battling cancer and it was testicular cancer, making this his third time fighting.[11] In January 2019, Czerwinski stated that the testicular cancer returned and had his second testicle surgically removed, requiring him to undergo testosterone replacement therapy for the rest of his life.[12]
