Meet the fattest man in the world

Named by Guinness Book of World Records as the fattest man ever, at the age of 12, Jon Brower Minnoch weighed in at 133 kilograms.

By the age 22 he was 6 ft 1 in tall, and weighed 178 kilograms.

Minnoch’s weight, according to Wikipedia,  continued to increase steadily until his hospitalisation in March 1978 at age 36 due to cardiac and respiratory failure.

That same year, he broke a record for the greatest difference in weight between a married couple when he married his 50 kg wife Jeannette and later fathered two children. Minnoch was diagnosed with massive generalized edema, a condition in which the body accumulates excess extracellular fluid.

Upon his hospital admission, it was estimated by endocrinologist Dr. Robert Schwartz that over 408 kg of his overall body mass was retained fluid.

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Transportation for Minnoch was extremely difficult. It took over a dozen firemen and rescue personnel and a specially modified stretcher to transport him to University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. There, he was placed on two beds pushed together, and it took 13 people to simply roll him over for linen changes.

He was discharged from the hospital after 16 months on a strict diet. He weighed 216 kgs having lost approximately 419 kg;the largest human weight loss ever documented.

However, he was readmitted to the hospital just over a year later in October 1981, after his weight increased to 432 kg. With his underlying condition of edema being incurable and difficult to treat, the decision was made to discontinue treatment, and he died 23 months later on September 10, 1983, aged 41. At the time of his death, he weighed 362 kg.

Pic and info from Wikipedia

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