One Of The World's Fattest Men Has Passed Away
Jose Luis Garza, one of the fattest men in the world, has passed on to the great all-you-can-eat buffet in the sky. Jose is NOT to be confused with Manuel Uribe, the world's fattest man who recently got engaged.
Jose was bedridden in his home in Juarez, Mexico. He recently went on Mexican television and asked for her help. Manuel, who lost 550 pounds himself, regularly spoke to Jose on the phone and was trying to help him lose weight. This past Friday, Manuel even sent his new fiancee to Jose's home with fruits and a protein supplement.
Some of Jose's family members have criticized officials for not moving Jose to a hospital before he became critically ill. Over the weekend, Jose complained about having trouble breathing and eating. Emergency officials finally transported him to the hospital yesterday, but it was too late. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the age of 47. He weighed 990-pounds.
Jose was buried yesterday in a specially made coffin.
Rest in peace, Jose...
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If I lived in Juarez I would probably be as fat as him. I'm addicted to burritos...
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Hew is this hottness in your pic lolo.
Submitted by ska on October 8, 2008 - 11:36am.
I have read along here for a long time, but first time I post. As a recovering "food addict", I can understand both sides. I have binge eating disorder, and I have been in treatment for it for 9 months. I did let myself go though, and I am very overweight. How did I let myself get to that point? I dont know. Maybe I didnt care. Maybe I didnt realise it fully until the point I knew I needed help. But a food addiction is like any other addiction and you DO need to be treated for it. It is not solved by dieting or by will power, it is not something so easy as "I should stop eating because it is bad for me". It is a symptom for something else, an underlying issue, which has to be resolved in order to stop with the addiction. And same as with an alcoholic, I will always be a binge eater. It will always be my weak spot, something that I will have to fight every day. It hurts to see people make fun of others with overweight because it is not a question of not wanting or not taking care of ourselves. There is a lot of suffering and guilt and desperation involved. Of shame. Of denial. At least for people with eating disorders, I of course cant speak for everyone.
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thanks for posting. As an addict myself (drugs) I totally relate. And the stigma of being a drug addict is just as severe if not more.
Good for you for getting help. If you havent gone already, Id suggest Overeaters Anonymous. The 12 step programs helped me a ton in the beginning.
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Submitted by Dr. Destructo on October 8, 2008 - 10:56am.
Morning Listers! Oh irony, sweet, chocolate cake filled irony! I guess he died of a broken heart? Not being able to eat? Shit, I woulda thunk this was the first time in his entire life encouraging works flowed from his mouth! And then he died. So, maybe I'm bored with my current life and I've finally decided to perform an experiment on myself and sit in my bedroom and have food shoveled in for me by the metric ton. I will not move an inch and when I have to crap, I will simply shit myself and demand that someone come in with a pry bar and and lever the rolls of blub out of the way and attempt to wipe the dried on and compressed dingle coconuts from the region. And as a side benefit, I can sport a chubby beneath the displaced waves o' chunk and no one will be the wiser! And when I die, it will be filmed in classic film noir style and the camera will pan down as a sandwich tumbles from my baby arm sized fingers as I gasp and burp my final words 'Cheeeeeese....caaake!'
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AHAHAHAHA!! Awesome Dr. D, too funny. Seriously, may Jose R.I.P. now he can have all the chocolate, cheeseburgers and cheetos to his hearts desire....and be thin again....that's just one of my crazy takes on heaven.
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Submitted by cadebra1961 on October 8, 2008 - 10:34am.
In case anyone reading this thread has a family member heading in this direction, fruit is not a great diet food. It has sugar, so you really can't eat it in large quantities. The sugar also causes some infections. So while you're right that the family should have been making the choices for him after he got bedridden, it really needs to be high fiber, filling stuff. Not fruit.
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R.I.P. Rupert!
Dr. Destructo,
Yes, watch what you eat. No porkin up before Rio!
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Submitted by original putas on October 8, 2008 - 10:41am.
Actually, there are adjustments being made. Many doctor's offices now have a "bariatric chair" in their waiting room. (That's code for really, really, big) Wheelchairs come in regular and extra wide, and some towns even have special ambulances for the super-obese.
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R.I.P. Rupert!
What kind of help was he asking for? I recently lost 60 pounds, and these stories are good incentive not to get big again - for now. It's VERY easy to rationalize comfort-eating and that is one slippery slope.
Right now hypnosis is helping me a lot. I have a cd I listen to a couple of times a week, with lots of affirmations that seem to be sinking in.
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R.I.P. Rupert!
speakit, yeah, I know the feeling. If I eat some crappy stuff, my body gives me feedback fairly quickly. I guess one control that works for me is that I refuse to buy any new cloths to fit an expanding ass line. Call it my line in the sand.
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Submitted by suckstobemeandyou on October 8, 2008 - 10:33am.
What really sucks is to be one of those guys that exercised, ate right, and died before this dudes age of 47.
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My doctor was telling me about this guy that was in excellent physical shape, exercised, watched what he ate, he was in great health and perfect weight...but his cholesterol level was about 250...and he keeled over because of it!!! He was in his late 30's.
I can't imagine what it was like to prepare this obese guy for burial. I wonder if the doctors even bothered to do an autopsy.
ska, I hope you keep getting the help you need, and you overcome your addiction. As a former bulimic, I can tell you, it IS possible.
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I recommend getting your heart trampled on to anyone
I recommend walking around naked in your living room
-Alanis Morisette "You Learn"
I have read along here for a long time, but first time I post. As a recovering "food addict", I can understand both sides. I have binge eating disorder, and I have been in treatment for it for 9 months. I did let myself go though, and I am very overweight. How did I let myself get to that point? I dont know. Maybe I didnt care. Maybe I didnt realise it fully until the point I knew I needed help. But a food addiction is like any other addiction and you DO need to be treated for it. It is not solved by dieting or by will power, it is not something so easy as "I should stop eating because it is bad for me". It is a symptom for something else, an underlying issue, which has to be resolved in order to stop with the addiction. And same as with an alcoholic, I will always be a binge eater. It will always be my weak spot, something that I will have to fight every day. It hurts to see people make fun of others with overweight because it is not a question of not wanting or not taking care of ourselves. There is a lot of suffering and guilt and desperation involved. Of shame. Of denial. At least for people with eating disorders, I of course cant speak for everyone.
That said, in this case the people that "fed" this man kept his problem alive and did nothing to help him, they only enabled his condition. Even if it had meant him crying and screaming and cursing, I would have fed him healthy meals under doctors supervision. Have him undergo treatment. Given him the same opportunity I have had that he didnt, or couldnt take in time to stop his condition from reaching such an extreme state.
Mornin' Clarisse! How goes it fer you? Get fitted for a bikini yet?
And surely someone could have helped here? I've got a couple of old belts I would have happily donated for gastric lap band surgery. Size 36" might have been able to fit his bottomless Christmas bag pouch of a stomach! All they had to do was ask. Idiots.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H.L. Mencken
Submitted by Dr. Destructo on October 8, 2008 - 11:07am.
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I don't need to get paid to hit that kinda hotness. Bed sores make me hot. Bet he smells like vinegar. Or he did.. RIP.. seriously, when you can't walk anymore, put down the twinkies. I've put on a few pounds and I can FEEL it. I know that sounds crazy, but I really can and I'm not skinny. *eats carrots, drinks bottled water* So I'm guessing it's totally a mental problem to end up like this guy. He paid the ultimate price so I'm not gonna rag on him.
Ok, I guess I'm a bitch, too, b/c I think his family should take the finger they're pointing at Mexican officials and point it back at themselves. They enabled his behavior. THEY are to blame.
And honestly? He is, too.
The thing about addictions is that they CAN be beaten. It's not like you have absolutely no control over yourself.
I'm just tired of people not taking personal responsibility for their lives. It's the first step to changing for the better.
Anyway, RIP.
Dr. Destructo
"Fuck stomach stapling! He truly needed mouth stapling!"
Bam with the right hand!!! You don't outgrow a queen size mattress without shoveling shit down your gullet.
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"Who are you really, wanderer?" -- and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: "Maybe I'm a king."
"Some of Jose's family members have criticized officials for not moving Jose to a hospital before he became critically ill."
Fuck that...how about criticizing or HELPING Jose before he got that big?
Fuck stomach stapling! He truly needed mouth stapling!
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H.L. Mencken
This really is sad and I know he had reached out for help, but, you know, damm, it's not like he just woke up last week like this. I really think that it's totally off base for the family to blame Mexican officials for not putting him into the hospital when he became ill. Hello! he was so far past morbidly obese what the hell did they expect the medical community to do. They should hang there heads because this guy was bedridden for a very very long time and somebody was bringing him food. When you can no longer get out of bed to fix yourself something to eat then you're already on the way out.
speakit, would you just go for hitting it between the rolls, or go treasure hunting for an orifice? You might get lucky and find some loose change between the cushions as you're pushin'! Bonus round. Yous got PAID!
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H.L. Mencken
Food addiction should be given the same amount of sympathy and attention that drug and alcohol addiction receive. I feel for this man. He was an addict who needed help.
I'll eat 4 Gansitos in his memory.
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whenever I see someone who is really obese, I wonder how they ever let themselves get to that point. I can almost 10 lbs, and I have to take it off- it is just so uncomfortable!
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I recommend getting your heart trampled on to anyone
I recommend walking around naked in your living room
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oh crap.... I am getting back on my treadmill!!!
RIP dude....oh jeez......
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I really don't understand how people can let themselfs get to that point.
uh-o, one too many moon pies
LoLo on October 8, 2008 - 10:24am.
Maybe he was just a maverick too
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(I am so going to hell for laughing with you lolo)
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LMAO @ Branderson!
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Note to Self ~ renew gym membership.
sorry, to sound so evil, but "trouble eating" should have been their first clue that something was seriously wrong with him...RIP you poor guy...
I'd hit it.
Submitted by christine the hoff on October 8, 2008 - 10:53am.
EL B
little three bite cheeseburgers. No white castle in the U.K. yet? I'm surprised. they're like a Burger King, with baby sandwiches.
"Puts some Marmite on your toast"
Mmmmmm Marmite! Ok, still a little oink though!!
Nope, no White Castle here, also no Piggly Wiggly. I just wanna say " Going to the Piggly, Bye" :o)
Bye for now, c u l8r!
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TEAM OJ!! INNOCENT!!!! :o(
Morning Listers! Oh irony, sweet, chocolate cake filled irony! I guess he died of a broken heart? Not being able to eat? Shit, I woulda thunk this was the first time in his entire life encouraging works flowed from his mouth! And then he died. So, maybe I'm bored with my current life and I've finally decided to perform an experiment on myself and sit in my bedroom and have food shoveled in for me by the metric ton. I will not move an inch and when I have to crap, I will simply shit myself and demand that someone come in with a pry bar and and lever the rolls of blub out of the way and attempt to wipe the dried on and compressed dingle coconuts from the region. And as a side benefit, I can sport a chubby beneath the displaced waves o' chunk and no one will be the wiser! And when I die, it will be filmed in classic film noir style and the camera will pan down as a sandwich tumbles from my baby arm sized fingers as I gasp and burp my final words 'Cheeeeeese....caaake!'
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H.L. Mencken
>LOL Newportjoey!
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Amen, Motherfucker.
@DeeDee, yeah. He's kept in my personal stash.
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Did you say, "he was E-moaning?!"
EL B
little three bite cheeseburgers. No white castle in the U.K. yet? I'm surprised. they're like a Burger King, with baby sandwiches.
"Puts some Marmite on your toast"
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But I've got to say. You should look into getting a life too "Christine the Hoff". You're another one thats always on here wasting your life away.
Reminded me of Edina Moonsoon telling her mother that;
"Inside me I have a thin person, screaming to get out!!!"
And her mother responds,
"Just the one dear??"
"If Drinks Aren't Involved, Then Neither Am I."
Submitted by christine the hoff on October 8, 2008 - 10:47am.
On topic, I just ate four white castle sliders, boy am I going to have toilet flashes..
Have NO idea what they are but...OINK! :o)
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TEAM OJ!! INNOCENT!!!! :o(
LMAO Nits! I never get tired of looking at that shiny rotund fat man.
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Todo el rato que está enojado, pierde de estar contento.
Ok, I thought this was the dude that got engaged.
Again, MK clears it up and aids my deficiency for Googling.
RIP Big Guy.
You can eat anything and as much as you want in the Great Beyond. Just please be careful when cloud hopping, you don't want to fall back to earth.
...I am aka BRADIFUL BITCH, I SWEAR!!!...
On topic, I just ate four white castle sliders, boy am I going to have toilet flashes..
yeah, he must have eaten to bursting several times a day, every day FOR YEARS and nobody noticed?????
nobody tried to help? I'd get any kin of mine in treatment once they got over two hundred, two fifty, height depending.
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But I've got to say. You should look into getting a life too "Christine the Hoff". You're another one thats always on here wasting your life away.
My heart goes out to Jose and his family. Addictions are just that and we ALL have them. One more angel in heaven. RIP Jose.
El B.,
Right. He does have brilliant taste in clothes (and shoes!), but I was ok with the jeans. Actually, I was more than ok with the jeans *wink*wink*
You have a blasty blast!!
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Why eat bait?"
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I hope his demons died with him. RIP
As others have said, there is no way he could be this large if others were not bringing him awful sugar and fat filled food. It's not like he could nip up the shops for a pork pie is it? Why do people enable this? Would they bring an alcoholic vats of vodka? A drug addict packets of heroin? it's so sad.
On another note 'bellowing for a feeding' made me piss myself.
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Submitted by TITS on October 5, 2008 - 3:36pm.
I'd sooner eviscerate myself with a butter knife than wish that existence on another human being.
Poor guy. But how in the hell were the medics supposed to get him into the ambulance!?
Anyway, you would think somebody could have figured out a way to help morbidly fat people, by now. From a mental health angle, that is.
Submitted by Clarisse on October 8, 2008 - 10:39am.
El Bastardo
Third time! Lucky bastard! He hits on some of the same topics..ie...religion...god...etc, but funny fucking stuff!!! Oh, and he's in "bloke mode" right now, so that will be new for you.
Oh! I'm jellus!
Yep, shame, wouldnt have minded seeing him in a gold lame dress with FABULOUS make-up, instead of a beard! :o)
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TEAM OJ!! INNOCENT!!!! :o(
I'll bet they found the Sugar Free Chocolate under the mattress when they rolled Jose out the door. Do you think they had to use a "fork" lift?
"If Drinks Aren't Involved, Then Neither Am I."
I heard he had a great personality though!! That counts for something right? RIGHT?
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TEAM OJ!! INNOCENT!!!! :o(
El Bastardo
Third time! Lucky bastard! He hits on some of the same topics..ie...religion...god...etc, but funny fucking stuff!!! Oh, and he's in "bloke mode" right now, so that will be new for you.
Oh! I'm jellus!
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"FFS millions of people eat sushi!!!!
Why eat bait?"
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