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Too many fizzy drinks?
Picture an ordinary adult male. Then another. And another. And another. And another. And another. And, finally, one more. Seven fully grown men in all, standing in a line. Now, add their weight. Only then would you be close to Manuel Uribe’s weight. At his peak, he weighed 560 kg. From being billed as the heaviest man on the planet, he is now heading for a different record. The human who has lost the most weight. In the past year, Manuel has shed 180 kg. “I am
happy, I am really happy,” he says. No one knows for sure how Manuel joined the ranks of the hyper-obese, or morbidly obese, as his doctors call it. He lived for 14 years in Dallas, Texas, and he blames an unending diet of burgers, pizzas and fizzy drinks. But the doctors and other scientists are not so sure. The team of medics and nutritionists around him now have come up with a specialist diet that has produced remarkable results. Fish soup, complete with large chunks of fish, followed by a grapefruit and half an apple, rounded off with 18 peanuts is but one of his five meals.
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