Manuel Uribe lives in Mexico City with his mother and 40 years. His life might seem to any Mexican citizen if was that Manuel has entered the Guinness Book of Records because it weighs over 500 pounds and is the fattest man in the world. It is so obese that now lives, attended only by his mother in a bed without any contact with the outside world than that offered by television and computer and has never left home in the last five years until, just weeks ago, to get out, was the intervention of a crane.
Manuel is affected by this severe form of obesity since she was 22 years old and lived in the United States at that time weighed "only" 130 pounds for a six feet high. Then he started to gain weight exponentially, month after month without apparent cause and has not stopped. Now it seems to have reached 500 pounds: It is not possible to establish with certainty because Uribe can not weigh yourself more, can not even get out of bed since the last time he was weighed he had 'touched' at 320 pounds, the calculations forecasts indicate that today would have succeeded in the half-ton.
Manuel Uribe has revealed his story on TV about a year ago he launched a heartfelt appeal to be offered some specialists to operate. Until then he had been offered only to suck the fat from the legs, but he sought a doctor willing to intervene more strongly.
had responded to his appeal, six months later, Giancarlo De Bernardinis, Director of Surgery II Policlinico di Modena, an expert in operations on obese people, even with a weight up to 200 pounds. Manuel no doubt would have been a real challenge for him and, so, after consultation with the Director of the Hospital, Modena experts had begun to evaluate the exceptional conditions of transport and admission of this patient 'extraordinary' and the Mexican government had said that would provide a private plane. Since, surprisingly, the values \u200b\u200bof triglycerides and cholesterol in the blood of Manuel, as well as those of heart, were normal, no intervention would present difficulties typically associated with obesity surgery, but rather technical issues related to the weight of the patient and the Hospital was preparing to offer a field operative and tools appropriate to the tonnage of Manuel.
De Bernardinis has recently made a trip to Mexico to visit the patient and to schedule surgery for intestinal bypass, which would have created a short circuit in the small intestine in order to enable it to absorb only 10% of food, but Manuel said he did not wish to work more. Why? Uribe said that he managed to lose two hundred pounds thanks to a 'Zone diet' - characterized by many proteins, carbohydrates e attività fisica, svolta grazie a speciali attrezzature che gli permettono di fare esercizi altrimenti impossibili – e che sarebbe finalmente uscito di casa proprio grazie ai chili persi, anche se gli esperti sono scettici circa la possibilità, a questo stadio di obesità, di riuscire a dimagrire solo con una dieta. Amici e familiari hanno aiutato Manuel ad alzarsi sollevando il busto e così la gru lo ha portato dal letto al marciapiede fuori casa e poi su un camion dove lo hanno accolto alcuni musicisti mariachi, che lo hanno accompagnato in un tour della città di Monterrey, in Messico.
