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O Rly?

WTF?? What is that? in the pic...leg? stomach?

holy crap...

i wonder if he can move....

this is absolutely ridiculous.

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KAANEEYDAAA!!! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094625/)

M@

Bad thing is is that he can't get out of bed. That means some idiot is brining the man food to keep him that fat!

Talk about being an enabler.

Wonder what his LBM is. Think he'll try to maintain it on his cut? :D

EDIT: Wonder if those buckets are his "chamber pots" since he can't get out of bed. Or...maybe they're like feed bags?

WTF?? What is that? in the pic...leg? stomach?


That's his thigh. You can see more pics if you a google image search for his name.

Hmm, you also get pics of a Mexican ambassador, who happens to have the same name as this guy.

Bad thing is is that he can't get out of bed. That means some idiot is brining the man food to keep him that fat!

Talk about being an enabler.


That is what I always wonder about -- When you hear that they are eating something like 2 chickens a day + four gallons of milk + 3 dozen eggs etc. etc. and that they are bed-ridden, I always wonder why the f*ck their spouses continue to bring them that much food? Are they really that clueless? Or do they think that killing them with food is showing them love in some weird way? I dunno....truly baffling.

That is what I always wonder about -- When you hear that they are eating something like 2 chickens a day + four gallons of milk + 3 dozen eggs etc. etc. and that they are bed-ridden, I always wonder why the f*ck their spouses continue to bring them that much food? Are they really that clueless? Or do they think that killing them with food is showing them love in some weird way? I dunno....truly baffling.Because the greatest agony on this world is hearing a fat man crying for food.

weighs the same as five baby elephants

WTF?!?!?!?!?!

ROFL did you bring them cake and ice cream?

I watched a special last week about a 750-lb. man on TLC. I've never seen anything as ignorant as the people who lived with and enabled him. They were not wealthy, but blue-collar people of average means. They were not well-educated. His enablers were obese themselves, bordering on morbid as well, though they were still very mobile where he was not.

In the end, he died of a blood-bourne infection his body could not fight. His heart and respiratory systems had been compromised. His skin was irreparably damaged. A dead man at 39 years old.

Though the number are but a tiny fraction of the starvation that goes on in this world every day, hypernutrition is just as pitiable. It's more preventable than starvation and it occurs directly under the nose of the most developed nations in the world.

-R

I watched a special last week about a 750-lb. man on TLC. I saw a special like that not long ago. It was probably the same guy. This guy was admitted to a special hospital to treat his obesity and during his stay he was still eating junk food. He was even to the point where he couldn't even roll over!

I watched a special last week about a 750-lb. man on TLC. I've never seen anything as ignorant as the people who lived with and enabled him. They were not wealthy, but blue-collar people of average means. They were not well-educated. His enablers were obese themselves, bordering on morbid as well, though they were still very mobile where he was not.

In the end, he died of a blood-bourne infection his body could not fight. His heart and respiratory systems had been compromised. His skin was irreparably damaged. A dead man at 39 years old.

Though the number are but a tiny fraction of the starvation that goes on in this world every day, hypernutrition is just as pitiable. It's more preventable than starvation and it occurs directly under the nose of the most developed nations in the world.

-RYeah I saw him. Also I saw one about a fat woman on TLC, I think. I felt kind of bad for the guy because he was like a powerless child, utterly enslaved to his greed for food. His family members were, as you said, utterly useless and lacked any control themselves, so they were anything but role models for him.

Your last statement is totally inline with what I have said before. I think it's an egregious sin that after millenia of often not getting enough food, and many millions on the planet STILL not getting enough food, there are many people who get so much food that they are eating themselves to death. It's the pinacle of overconsumption, more than gas-guzzling or 15,000 square feet mansions or anything else.

I actually feel sorry for the poor bastard in a way. His problem is obviously pyschological where he hits a certain point that his psyche and reality breaks, he becomes bed-ridden and suffers from extreme depression. This is the exception and not the norm of a human going way over the deep end. He is an extreme case of being a slave to a horrible addiction. This is one I have a hard time feeling animosity towards and really winds up getting my pity more than anything.

Yes, for whomever is keeping him in that state, they are either very cruel or very naive, thinking they're helping rather than hurting.

... thinking they're helping rather than hurting.
His wife (the 750-lb. guy) sounded so poorly educated that I feel there's no way she would have deliberately enabled him as she did. She was in so much pain over his condition, and when he died, she seemed genuinely grief-stricken in a way that, IMO, excludes any ability to harbor malicious intent.

I hate to put it this way, but she was downright stupid. It seems that the formula here is simple; ignorance coupled with an addictive personality (turning to food for the addiction) equals a morbidly obese individual. Like a crack addict can't put down the pipe, this guy couldn't stop eating, literally to save his life. Difference is, food is harmless for most of us whereas someone like this? The disorder is as mental as it becomes physically disabling.

I couldn't help but be as disgusted as I was fascinated by the program I watched. To realize that there are people out there so ignorant that they'll feed a loved one to death is... unthinkable to you or I. To them? It's actually helping them. Craziness.

-R

I hate to put it this way, but she was downright stupid. It seems that the formula here is simple; ignorance coupled with an addictive personality (turning to food for the addiction) equals a morbidly obese individual. Like a crack addict can't put down the pipe, this guy couldn't stop eating, literally to save his life. Difference is, food is harmless for most of us whereas someone like this? The disorder is as mental as it becomes physically disabling.She was dumber than a bag of turds and I definitely agree that stupid people can't look at their lives and actions as critically as they may need to to break out of a pattern like this and that is probably part of the reason why the poor/lower class in our society also tend towards heavier weights. I know some will gasp at my link of wealth and intelligence, but there is one. If you take a dumb-dumb and in our society they are still able to get more than enough food, they'll probably just eat and eat and eat and then when full from their cheap food lament their obesity and how awful they feel, almost oblivious to the fact that they can do anything about it.

When I see a fit and healthy adult, especially an older one who has resisted the path that most of his/her peers have gone down, I immediately have a bias in my appraisal of their intelligence. I see them as more critical and in control of their lives.

She was dumber than a bag of turds...

Sounds like she was Codependent (http://www.nmha.org/infoctr/factsheets/43.cfm). I feel badly for everyone invovled.

M@

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Sweet Jesus!

It really is amazing how food could ruin a person's life, or even kill them. It was really sad watching that show about the 750 pound man. You would think, you would reach a point, that you would say to yourself, I have got to do something about this, before it takes over my life. What is amazing to me, is that these people are able to find a husband or a wife. You always hear single people say how hard it is to find a boyfriend, girlfriend, yet this guy is 750 pounds, and found someone. Of course when someone gets that heavy, it really is not about the food, it is a pyscological probem. I think down deep, that they are not even aware of, someone that heavy craves the attention that the fat brings them. But even for morbidly fat people, there is hope, in sites like this. I saw this guy once on the Oprah Winfrey Show, he weighed like 450 pounds, and just through improved diet and exersize, he got down to under 200. The only operation he had was to get rid of the excess skin.

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just sick and wrong

You know who I feel sorry for? The 12 Firemen that have to carry these people out of their basements, second story floors etc. Those are the people that deserve compassion.

I don't care what your circumstance is, if you let yourself get to be anything over 350 pounds, then you deserve your condition. And they are just as guilty as the people that let them get that way.

Not a single thought of emotion would cross my mind when thinking of these people.

Absolutely revolting.

You know who I feel sorry for? The 12 Firemen that have to carry these people out of their basements, second story floors etc. Those are the people that deserve compassion.

I don't care what your circumstance is, if you let yourself get to be anything over 350 pounds, then you deserve your condition. And they are just as guilty as the people that let them get that way.

Not a single thought of emotion would cross my mind when thinking of these people.

Absolutely revolting.


i slightly agree, but regardless of HOW they got that way, its still just sad. sad because you know that most of them are just one step away from death, sad because they and someone else allow them to be live that way, and sad because it was completley preventable

As the devil's advocate, I think that these people are not qualitatively different than many fat people. A 250 lber would criticize somebody who weighs 300 and a 300 lber would watch a bedridden 600 lber on tv and consider the person pathetic, but what's really the difference? All three people are not in control of their health or diet. The 600 lber has the least control, though when you're talking 600 lbs, there is undoubtedly a genetic component (read: not an excuse). There are many people who are only "obese" without being super-holy-sh*t morbidly obese and these people put ZERO effort into their diet or lifestyle, so they are no different than a 600 lber except that their appetite is probably not as big, but anybody who puts ZERO effort into their health and they are unhealthy because of it shouldn't really criticize a 600 lber.

Just something to think about, and not targetted at anybody here, because by definition anybody on these forums has given pause to their health and is proactive about it to some degree.

Oh you are absolutely right, man slaughter and murder are still crimes. Lesser or two evils all things aside though.