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THE WORLDS HEAVIST MAN
23/10/09
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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