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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | April 2008 
World's Fattest Man Enjoys the Simple Things
 Tom Chivers & Katie Franklin - UK Telegraph
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A Mexican man who once weighed half a ton is looking forward to the simple things in life after shedding half his body weight.
Bed-bound and unable to look after himself, in January 2006, after five years of isolation, Mr Uribe made an impassioned plea on Mexican national television for help.
Doctors and dieticians the world over responded to his appeal, with a team of medics from Italy, the United States and Mexico leading the attempt to restore Mr Uribe to a healthy weight.
Mr Uribe has been following the so-called "Zone Diet", a high-protein regime pioneered by Boston biochemist Dr Barry Sears.
If reports are accurate, he has so far lost 570lb (41 stone), or almost half his body weight.
His stated goal is to reach 220lb, or a little less than 16 stone.
If he succeeds it would be his lowest weight since he was a teenager.
Mr Uribe, whose story will be told on Extraordinary People: The World's Heaviest Man, said he enjoyed the simple things in life.
"I like doing my hair, looking nice," he said. "To pee and make love are the best things. Ah, to go to the toilet."
In March, Mr Uribe ventured outside for the first time in five years.
A forklift lifted Mr Uribe's bed onto a truck and the 41-year-old rode through the streets of San Nicolas de los Garza, a Monterrey suburb.
Mr Uribe was on his way to meet his girlfriend for a date to celebrate his weight loss and her birthday. But unfortunately a road accident and Mr Uribe's health got in the way.
One of the posts holding a sun-shielding tarp over his bed hit an overpass. Mr Uribe's blood pressure then dropped so much his doctors advised him not to go on and the celebration was cancelled.
"We were going to celebrate that I've been losing weight for two years and that it was my girlfriend's birthday," Mr Uribe said at the time.
"The saddest part was that I couldn't fulfil my dream of taking my girlfriend out to eat." |
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