Eating dangerously

I've almost finished Tom Parker Bowles " A year of eating dangerously" and although I started it with high hopes, I feel it doesn't quite fulfill its promise.I'm sure that eating the hottest of hot chillies is unpleasant and possily dangerous, but is eating too much barbequed meat when judging a competition really dangerous. I think I have become a bit bored with his descriptions of over-filling his stomach; maybe I've become jaded because of too many food advertisements on television at this time of year.