Ugh.

[asterroc]

How will he even get on a plane?!

[Maunal] Uribe [1,200 lbs] made an impassioned plea for help earlier this year on Mexican television, saying he weighed a more normal 290 pounds until age 22 and did not know what happened to him.
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No one has managed to find suitable scales for Uribe in years and estimates of his weight are made partly by tape-measure.

He kept fucking eating, that's what! Yeah I know obesity is a problem, but it's not all biological folks, it's a mental problem as well.

On the flip side, I think it's awesome that they have to do an order-of-magnitude estimate to determine how much he weighs - I presume they measure an average circumference, assume a spherical cow and density equal to water, and calculate!

Comments

[freakylynx.livejournal.com]

heh, 290 is 'more normal' - what does that say for our weight standards today ;P

What I tend to wonder is, when someone reaches that level of weight - wouldn't the difficulty of getting to the food force some sort of dieting on them?

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

It disgusts me that people are able to et that fat. And 290 normal?! You could lose my body weight and still be a normal sized person. I also love how medications with dangerous side-effects and invasive surgery are seen by many people as easier alternatives to eating less and *gasp* excercise. I'm not a gym person or anything, but would leading a semi active lifestyle really be that difficult?

[sammka.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to point out that you could fit OVER ELEVEN of me inside this one guy.