Posted on 05/26/2014 10:58:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Manuel Uribe was admitted to hospital with an abnormal heartbeat but despite the work of doctors died in Email
A Mexican man once considered the world's fattest man has died at the age of 48.
Manuel Uribe, 48, was admitted to hospital a few days ago following an abnormal heartbeat.
Despite the work of doctors, he died today at Hospital Universitario in Monterrey.
Meme - as he was known to family and friends - was once the heaviest man in the world, weighing an incredible 88 stone.
His enormous weight led to him receiving a Guinness World Record . However, he suffered a number of health complications and was left bedridden for the past nine years.
Meme managed to shed some weight and slimmed down to about 62 stone . In 2008, he married Claudia Solis.
His death was confirmed by local health officials and doctors have not yet certified the cause.
C’mon, dude, none of that negativity. Ask the hot girls out like I told you to.
LOL, well, I guess that is as good a theory as any. Later.
Pretty funny, and true.
Now mind you it is only a guess, but 800+ freaking pounds is not going to get you into the elderly category.
Which means she also fed him. I would guess it impossible for someone without a metabolic dysfunction to simply eat themselves that large, no matter how hard they tried. On the other hand, that level of obesity represents the steady intake of a very large umber of calories over a long period of time. So yes, she was his caretaker, but she was also his enabler, unless she was carrying out medical order to restrict his diet. And who knows - he lost 400 pounds before they married, so maybe that's exactly what happened. It just seems kind of Stockholm Syndrome to me.
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