Housebound 190 kg Mumbai man rescued

 Nazir Ahmed weighing 190 kg could finally move out of his second floor tenement in south Mumbai Sunday after five years of staying indoors when the main door and a wall was broken and a dozen fire brigade personnel lifted him down the staircase on a special stretcher,made from bed sheets
Obesity surgeon Dr Sanjay Borude requested the fire brigade to bring Ahmed out because he would not have been able to walk down the narrow, rickety staircase of the century-old, three-storey building by himself.
Fire brigade personnel  carried him down the stairs, placed him in an ambulance and escorted him till the hospital.
During the operation, the doctors will cut off about two-thirds of his stomach, thereby reducing his appetite. “Ahmed should be able to start walking within three days after the surgery and he is likely to lose 10 kilos in the first month,” said Dr Borude, who has performed the surgery on a 19-year-old boy from Qatar who weighed 283 kg.

Ahmed is expected to lose around 100 kg over the coming year.

Mr Mason, 48, now weighs 49st after shedding 20st to make him eligible for gastric bypass surgery, but is still believed to be the heaviest man alive today.

The former postman has now had the band fitted, and is understood to have told staff at Chichester Hospital, West Sussex, about his book plans during his three week stay.

He wants to tell people how he achieved his dramatic weight-loss, and will write all about it in the autobiography, which he is calling ‘The Journey’.

A source told The Sun: “He has been telling people in hospital how he has been writing this book and it will reveal how he has managed to lose so much weight. He has been in good spirits.”

Prior to the treatment, Mr Mason admitted eating 20,000 calories a day, eight times the amount needed by an average man.

His care bill costs taxpayers an estimated £100,000 a year and is believed to have topped £1 million over the last 15 years.

Firefighters had to demolish the front wall of Mr Mason’s former home in Ipswich so they could drive a fork lift truck inside to lift him out and put him into an ambulance when he needed a hernia operation in 2002.

Mr Mason took the title of the world’s heaviest man after Mexican Manuel Uribe, 43, more than halved his 90st weight to get married last year.

Manuel Uribe

THE ZONE DIET
Sample Zone Diet Meals And Menus
ZONE DIET MEAL AND MENU – BREAKFAST ZONE DIET MENU -
Female

Scrambled Eggs

4 egg whites or 1/2 cup egg substitute

1 ounce non-fat cheese, shredded

1 cup grapes

1/2 piece rye toast

2/3 teaspoon olive oil

1/2 teaspoon natural peanut butter

ZONE DIET MENU – LUNCH

Cheeseburger4 1/2 ounces lean ground beef (10% fat or less)

1 slice reduced fat cheese

1 slice each tomato, lettuce, onion                        

1 piece rye bread

1/2 apple

6 peanuts

ZONE DIET MENU – DINNER
Female
 BBQ Chicken

3 ounces skinless chicken breast

1 slice each lemon and onion

1/2 teaspoon barbecue sauce

1 1/2 cups steamed cauliflower

Spinach salad

LOVE YOUR FAT BUM AND THIGHS SAYS RESEARCHER

Having a bigger bum, hips and thighs can be good for your health, protecting against heart problems, according to scientists.

Carrying fat around the backside and thighs reduces the effect of harmful proteins which cause inflammation and artery clogging, they claim.

The researchers found that a larger rear is preferable to extra fat around the stomach which gives no such protection, reports the Daily Mail.

Gluteofemoral fat around the lower body is harder to break down than upper body fat around the stomach which is designed to be quickly generated and then easily metabolized.

But the breakdown of these fat cells releases a lot of pro-inflammatory cytokines which have been linked to cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance and diabetes.

Slower-burning hip fat also makes more of a hormone that protects the arteries and promotes better blood sugar control and fat burning.

Study leader Dr Konstantinos Manolopoulos, of OxfordUniversity, said: “The fat around our thighs and hips is different to the fat we accumulate around our tummy.

“There is ‘good’ fat and ‘bad’ fat – just like there is good and bad cholesterol.

“The cells in lower body fat work differently from the cells in upper body fat – so it could be said that celebrities like J-Lo are better role models for women’s health than supermodels who have much less lower body fat.”

Future uses of the study could include deliberately increasing hip and bottom fat to reduce cardiovascular and metabolic problems.

THE world’s heaviest man is a Brit who has ballooned to 70 STONE, it was revealed yesterday.

The man needs a £20,000 life-saving op after a compulsive eating disorder left him “super-obese”.

 He eats 20,000 calories of food a day – EIGHT TIMES the official adult male average of 2,500.

AND three family-sized takeaways a night and wolfs down Sunday roasts like snacks.

He has spent much of the past eight years in bed at his home in Ipswich, Suffolk.

His care costs taxpayers an estimated £100,000 a year.

And now he needs drastic stomach surgery to stop him eating and keep him alive – at a cost of £20,000 to the NHS.EMERGENCY teams, medics, NHS professionals and the military are today uniting in a fight to save the life of one of the heaviest people in Britain.

In an operation weeks in the planning, a co-ordinated fight is underway to help the Ipswich man, who needs the help of specialist weight-loss doctors and possible surgery to help him lose tens of stones to save his life.

Specialist teams are preparing him to take him out of Suffolk to one of the only centres in Britain that can deal with him – 152 miles away in Chichester, Sussex.

One option being considered by NHS chiefs and the military is to fly him there in an RAF Chinook helicopter, considered to be one of the best forms of emergency transport anywhere in the world

THE FORMER FATTEST MEN
In 2004 the record holder was 77st American Patrick Deuel.

Britain’s previous heaviest man was 65st cab driver Barry Austin, of Birmingham

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GOOD MORNING FROM THE FABULOUS GOLD COAST

Were have no tourist, no beaches and no jobs .all due to swine flu,a big Storm surf, and the economic downturn

But we still have those pot bellies

SO TODAY LETS TALK FAT BELLIES

Big belly, pot belly, beer belly, it doesn’t matter what you call it
The extra big belly will even cause you to age prematurely. According to research done at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, obesity accelerates the ageing process even more than cigarette smoking. Their research shows that the difference between being obese and being lean corresponds to over eight years of extra ageing.

Most people are struggling with at least a few extra pounds of body fat. Most likely this unwanted fat is sitting around your waistline like a spare tire. This fat is not just unsightly. It is downright dangerous to your health.

Specialists estimate that a woman with a waist measurement of over 34 inches or a man with a waist measuring over 39 inches increase their risk of many illnesses like heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure by a whopping 500 per cent. .

THE ANATOMY OF BELLY FAT

When we consume more energy that we burn up, the body stores the excess as fat in special fat cells called adipocytes. The abdomen is the favourite storage area and there are actually two types of abdominal fat. The less important type is the subcutaneous fat or the fat that is sitting just underneath the skin. This fat, like the fat on the hips and buttocks, may be unsightly but is not medically important. This is the fat that doctors can remove with popular surgical procedures like liposuction or lipectomy.

The other type of fat is internal or visceral fat. Inside the belly there is an apron covering the internal organs called the omentum. This apron can become loaded with unhealthy fat. Even worse, this internal fat can surround, strangle and even penetrate into organs like the liver, with devastating effects.

I must also point out that it is quite possible to have a normal body weight or even be underweight and still suffer from excess body fat. Medical researchers using MRI scans have shown that over 45 per cent of people with normal BMI (body mass index) had unhealthy amounts of excess belly fat

THE CHEMISTRY OF BELLY FAT

The fat cells inside your abdomen are not just globs of excess fat. They actively produce a number of powerful chemicals called cytokines that promote inflammation. and disrupt the body’s metabolism. A multitude of disorders like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, elevated blood cholesterol, triglycerides and uric acid can result.

Excess belly fat creates hormone imbalance. Whether you are a man or a woman, the more abdominal fat you carry, the more of the female hormone estrogen you will produce. This can be devastating for a man. An overweight man will have high levels of estrogen (female hormone) while his testosterone levels will fall. This will increase his risk of prostate cancer, sexual dysfunction, low sperm count and infertility.

On the female side, too much estrogen promotes menstrual difficulties, uterine fibroids, breast lumps and breast cancer, endometriosis, polycystic ovaries and infertility. The actions of other important hormones like insulin, glucagons and leptin are also compromised by belly

Fortunately if you have gained belly fat there are ways to shed the pounds and return to a healthier you. Exercise is the best way to rid the belly fat. When exercising you start losing weight and become toned which will begin to shrink the belly fat and eventually turn into muscle. It is best to discuss with your doctor how much exercise you can handle everyday to target your abdominal area. If you do not have the strength to do exercise simply going for a walk can be beneficial. After eating a meal, a nice walk around your neighborhood will help you burn calories and get fit.

 Diet changes will also help you stop gaining belly fat and begin losing it. Find healthier alternatives to the foods you currently eat. Instead of eating white bread, you could eat a more beneficial loaf. You should also keep track of your daily calorie intake, and perhaps even ration your meal sizes.

 Changing your diet and adding exercise will not only have you looking well on the outside. Your body will be healthier and less likely to encounter a slew of diseases that can occur with belly fat. Even if you cannot do as much exercise as you would like to, every bit helps. You will not only change your pant size, you will also change your health for years to come
So give up the hamburgers cut down on the grog throw away the smokes and get healthy,easier said then done but lets all try.

READ THIS

Nutrition It’s about
eating well to nourish your body.

LISTEN TO YOUR STOMACH

Your stomach is only the size of your fist clenched.
Imagine this and you’ll soon realise it doesn’t take a lot
to fill that volume. Aim to eat only when you’re hungry.
Stop when you’re comfortably full – not stuffed! Check
in with your stomach every so often – it takes the
stomach 20 minutes to signal the brain that it’s FULL!

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