Who is he - the owner of the title "The fattest man in the world"?

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:55

If you look closely at the pictures of people suffering from anorexia or obesity, you really understand that these are by no means funny pictures. The fattest people in the world, like the thinnest, are sick and deeply unhappy. Uncontrolled weight is a key factor in their poor he alth, both physical and mental.

Fat men are champions

Excessive number of kilograms in some representatives of "homo sapiens" is simply amazing, the question involuntarily arises: "Are they really "sapiens" if they allowed their body to be brought to such a terrifying state?" However, each of them has its own story.

US citizen John Brower Minnoch has been officially recognized as the owner of the prestigious title of "The Fattest Man in the World" in the entire history of the planet. Already at 22, John's weight reached 181 kg, and his maximum weight was recorded in 1979 and reached 635 kg with an increase of 1m 85cm. Minnoch suffered from monstrous edema throughout his life,disease of all obese people. Experts claimed that at the time of the extreme weight, only water in his body was about 400 liters. In order to change the location in the bed of such a heavy body, it was necessary to resort to the help of at least 13 people. In 1981, while hospitalized, John Brower, with the help of doctors and a low-calorie diet, lost weight to 216 kg. And a week after discharge, he again ended up in the hospital, shocking the doctors with the number of kilograms gained: in just one week, the American gained 91 kg. This lightning-fast set of huge weight caused Minnoch to enter the Guinness Book of Records. The fattest man in the world left us at the age of 42 with a body weight of 363 kg, leaving behind two children and a widow Janet, whose weight, by the way, did not exceed 50 kg.

Another Guinness World Record hero

The title of "the fattest man in the world" of the living belongs to Manuel Uribe Garza, a Mexican by birth, born in 1956. With a height of 190 cm, his weight reached 597 kg, and only after five years of immobility, he sounded the alarm and turned to specialists through television for help. Then, in 2007, he decided on a stomach reduction operation and liposuction, as a result of which following a diet, he lost a record weight to 381 kg.

Garza became a real celebrity, for the first time he was able to go outside without the help of strangers. To this day, Manuel Uribe continues to adhere todoctor-recommended low-carbohydrate diet and regular exercise. In total, thanks to the efforts of doctors, the fattest man in the world today has lost more than 300 kg and even found a life partner.

Is this fame necessary?

It is difficult to envy the glory of the fattest people, because the reverse side of this coin is physical and mental suffering. The cause of death for many of them is diseases such as diabetes mellitus, kidney and heart failure. Today, hardly anyone wants to try on the title of "the fattest man in the world." Photos of such champions will surely make many of us think about the need for regular physical activity, proper nutrition and, in general, about a he althy lifestyle.