World's most obese man vies for different record

by stvalentine | May 14, 2008 at 03:53 am
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Mexico's Manuel Uribe, once the world's most obese man, is now vyingfor a different record: the human who has lost the most weight.

Uribe, who weighed as much as a small truck at more than half a tonne, is dieting while confined to a reinforced bed that he has not left for the past six years because he is so heavy.

He has lost 518 pounds since March 2006 on a diet of grapefruits, egg-white only omelets, fish, chicken, vegetables and peanuts.

Now weighing 717 pounds -- the size of three hefty men -- Uribe is still unable to move his swollen legs but hopes to get out of the house next month for only the third time in six years to celebrate his 43rd birthday.


Uribe, who became an Evangelical Christian during his weight lossdrive, said his goal is to weigh 285 pounds by 2010, meaning he wouldhave lost 950 pounds.

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Barbara McPherson
Barbara McPherson
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at 19:39 on May 14th, 2008

stvalentine, I like this story. It's good stuff.  I wonder who feeds these bedbound people the junk they do to keep them so obese.  Perhaps criminal charges should be considered.

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