This is Manuel Uribe, a Mexican dude, who is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the fattest man on earth. He tipped the scales (actually broke them) at 1,234 pounds when they gave him the honor, but apparently he's dropped 400 pounds since then. Good job Manuel - you got under that half-ton mark. At this rate your penis may soon re-emerge from the folds of fat, allowing you to live out your dream of banging the neighbor's sow. Keep hope alive, big guy.
(Note to Lou Dobbs - want to keep Mexicans from crossing the border? Keep shipping them crates of food until they're all 1,000 pounds. Problem solved, as Ross Perot would say.)
And You Thought Perez Was A Fat Beast...
Friday, July 20, 2007
Posted by Melvin Ayatollahofrock'nrolla at 6:23 PM
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Geez, you are really jealous of Perez aren't you? He never mentions you, so I guess you will just have to work harder at being as popular as him.
I think that a person in this condition deserves much sympathy. Although I can't imagine what it must be like to be in his body, I do know what hell it is to be even mildly overweight. Obesity is a complex problem. And because of this complexity, science has been struggling to find a solution for a long time. But they are making great strides of late. Obesity experts generally agree that morbid obesity results from a combination of genetic, societal, neurological, hormonal and psychological components. Because of the proliferation of mental health care professionals in America, (which is only one school of thought on the obesity issue) much mis-information has been spread through the media regarding obesity and its root causes. Thusly, prejudice continues. What obesity is not about is lack of willpower, a person not loving oneself, laziness, child abuse, a desire to repel the opposite sex or any of the other ridiculous tales told by the mental health community. The study of the mind and of human behavior is not even close to an exact science. For example, psychiatrists once believed and perpetuated the myth that homosexuality was a psychiatric illness. Nothing but junk science as it turned out. But it did a great disservice to millions of gay individuals worldwide and perpetuated prejudice many years beyond a time when there might have been acceptance of the lifestyle. In the last several years, great strides have been made by the scientific community in their understanding of obesity. One was their discovery of the so-called "fat gene." The jury is still out on the exact cause of obesity. But whenever I hear someone in public verbally abusing an obese person, I know that that individual is shamefully ignorant of the latest science and is driven only by an insatiable need to make themselves feel good at the expense of another.
7:13 Anonymous
Very compassionate post. I saw this guy on a TV show about morbidly obese people.
7:08 Anonymous
Aww, nonense. Perez can't hold a candle to Crabbie. Perez is a butt kisser with vacant talent. His mother's milk is mean-spiritedness so who cares? I've visited his site in the past but don't any more 'cause I felt like I needed to shower to get the nastiness off.
OMG-- keep shipping them crates of food.... that is the funniest thing ever. Don't ever say Crabbie doesn't have balls-- if this were DListed you would have the crazy Race Warriors all over you for that one. At least here you can laugh at something funny without making a race war out of it. Go Crabbie!!!
Agreed, 7:13, that was indeed a very compassionate post.
If you look at this guy's thighs (and you'd have to be blind to not do so, really), you'll notice that there are significant skin problems. My guess is bed sores. Perhaps the skin just can't keep up with the ever-widening girth.
You don't get to this size from just indulging yourself with pizza and ice cream, people. There's something seriously off kilter with this guy's brain chemistry.
8:53 pm - Your poor writing skills tell me that you are either very young or have not had the benefit of a college education. Hence, your gross lack of compassion. I think you are a far more tragic person that the one depicted in the photo. Life is the great leveler. I can assure you that at some point, something will befall you that will result in your desperate need for understanding, acceptance and sympathy. In my profession I have seen the super wealthy, the super arrogant, the control freaks and the haters all brought to their knees by disease, death, divorce and various other tragedies that come with having lived a life. Although you are probably many years away from it at this point, there WILL come a time in your life that you are ashamed of the words you wrote in your post.
In my humble opinion, obesity is caused by an emotional attachment to food that starts in childhood. Rarely (if ever) do you find obese people--if you go deeply into their childhood environment__who were not raised with SOME kind of over emphasis on food. In effect they "hang on" to the food because it's taken on so much emotional importance.
In addition, people use food to deal with stress and the lack of this or that in their lives. They choose foods that give more immediate short term "feel good" results: sugar and carbs for example. Creating an imbalance of sorts in the body, which the body adjusts to, which results in the body "asking" for the substances (food, chemical, whatever) that the person has been giving it.
Once the excess weight has manifested, a viscious cycle often occurs driving the person's self image downward.
I've had an experience of late trying to lose some weight and finally got pissed at the fact that I could not wear many of my clothes (that I adore) and it's helping me get PAST the depression that was causing me to over eat.
7:13 is compassionate in that they want to alleviate human suffering, but seems to be expecting (like so many others) a technological and scientific solution to more problems that it can solve.
A western approach, which has it's place of course. I love science and technology, but we've been putting huge efforts in finding SCIENTIFIC solutions, and people are sicker than ever.
1:06 pm, you missed the point made by 7:13 completely. The only group that has been spitting out opinions decade after decade after decade about how to solve obesity is the mental health people. If people are sicker than ever, than that blame can be layed right at the door of psychiatrists and psychologists who have had the floor on this issue throughout history. They are the ones that believe that emotions are the cause of everything. That is their job. But it is only one part of a problem. They are the ones that have failed in finding a cure. Science and technology entered the picture only when a solution to the problem was NOT being found and when the problem kept getting worse. 7:13 did point out that there is a "pschological component" to obesity. The puzzle is large and modern science finally stepped in, in search of the real reason morbid obesity exists. And, they have found a lot of information about the fat problem. If you want to stay on the merry-go-round your on, endlessly trying to convince yourslef that its all about emotions and all that other drivel we've all heard over adn over again, have at it. It's your life. But modern science is on to something. I know one thing, mental health people have been spewing their crap for so long, acting as if they know exactly why we are all so fat. Meanwhile, there is a 95% relapse rate on weight loss efforts. One thing is for certain though.....if the mental health people really had the answer, why aren't people from all over the western world lined up on their doorsteps to receive the cure. Why isn't there a big splash in the media announcing that a cure has been found. Mental health people don't have the answer. That why. Because it's not only about emotions and the baloney you have bought into.
Anonymous 1:01 -
Stop. You're making me cry.
You can NOT be serious 1:06 pm. WHO TOLD YOU THAT "RAREY IF EVER DO YOU FIND OBESE PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT RAISED WITH SOME KIND OF OVER-EMPHASIS ON FOOD" in their childhood. Oh My God. You are exactly what 7:13 is talking about. You have bought into the bullshit and the prejudice. And in doing so, you can continue comfortably hating and blaming people for being super fat. Were you present for every fat person's childhood that you can make such a corny claim? You sure weren't present at my childhood.
Allow me to be the example to refute your ridiculous statement. I am morbidly obese. I was raised in a healthy minded home with very normal attitudes about food. There was never an over-emphasis on it nor was their an under emphasis. Looking back, my mom generally served very healthy meals, in appropriate kid size portions and we were allowed a treat if we wanted one. But there wasn't discussion about food. Or pressure about it. Or any other weirdness regarding food. Our family discussions and focus was never about that. It was about charity, school, current events, sports, hobbies, etc. I can assign no blame to my parents for the condition I'm in now. In spite of that very healthy-minded upbringing, I and 3 of my siblings look exactly like my paternal aunt, my paternal grandmother, and my paternal great-grandmother when she was alive. Genetics at play here, absolutely. My weight started to climb as I got older, in my early 20s. I tried everything to keep it in check, but always approached it in a healthy fashion. Not via fad diets. Eventually though, my weight started increasing with a speed I didn't understand. It finally got to the point that I was not able to exceed 700-800 calories a day and had to exercise excessively in order to keep from gaining even more weight. Eventually I burned out on the starvation diet and the extreme exercise and my weight increased to the morid state I'm in now. Same problem with my siblings. There is a genetic problem in my family that traces back at least 3 generations. To see the photos of me, my siblings and my ancestors is striking. We all look alike. All started gaining weight at about the same age to my knowledge and all topped out at about the same weight by our early 30's. I hope you are successful with your diet with your current attitude, but it's my guess that you will try and fail many times over, just like everybody else. Maybe you won't end up morbidly obese like I am. But you definitely don't know what you are talking about.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The truth hurts apparently! I stated my opinion as clearly and nicely as I could and you choose to attack me personally for it. Yawn.. Besides, I agree, by and large the vast majority of psychologists and psychiatrists actually make the problems worse or PROLONG them to a ridiculous extreme. They fall into the pseudo-science category..again in my oh-so-humble-unlike-yours opinion.
Methinks you protest too much and your ego's are very caught up in this issue. Sorry to hear that! So I'm "hating and blaming fat people". Wow, talk about a ridiculous extreme! I don't have anything further to say to people so out of control.
Here's a hint...blaming anyone including yourself is counter productive yet somehow I just knew someone would take what I said as blaming!! We're so caught up in blame and innocence, crime and punishment. BORING. Resonsibility means literally "ability to respond". It has nada to do with blame! Get a grip! Maybe that's why you can't lose weight. YOU are looking of someTHING (genes?) to blame. Not me!! I like trying to figure out what the hell I can do or BE that alleviates my own suffering. Though blaming is sweet in the short run, again in the long run it will not solve any problem.
1:01 Anonymous
Hey, everyone, over here! Sanctimonius sow alert!
Get off the computer. Better yet, earth is full. Get off my perfectly good planet. And STFU while doing it.
Hey Crabbie-- this is 8:53. Don't let 1:01 and "it's" obvious lack of any sense of humor or levity whatsoever make you cry. Some of us can see past the PC bullshit and have agood laugh at a world that will never be perfect. Hopefully, 1:01 will go back to saving the Rainforests and leave us to our fun-- obvious lack of writing skill aside.
#4:48 Anonymous
You're my new best friend.
I have no sympathy for this fat bastard. If he doesn't have a glandular problem that prevents him from loosing weight then fuck him. It's obvious this bastard can't get up to get the pounds of food that he must consume on a daily basis. The people who should be ashamed of themselves are the ones bringing food to this freak. Bring it on, I make no apologies for my post. In a single day he probably eats more that several small villages in Africa, small towns in the US and probaly cities in some countries.
2:37 Believe it or not I'm on your side, but if it comforts you to believe you have to wait for scientists to come up with the cure for obesity, it may be three more generations before you will be able to lose weight IF EVER.
Have you considered the possibility that science may be incapable of finding the cure? That even genetic engineering could be ineffective? How many generations are you going to feel powerless to cure your own obesity? If you've tried incredible diets, extraordinary exercise, unbelievable will power, drugs, herbs and god only knows what else, and it has not worked maybe it IS mental/emotional. So what? At least it's something you DO have control over. And pardon me but having 3 very obese women in your family does not exclude the possibility that emotions are at the root of the problem. It would put a great deal of attention on obesity, which is of course related to FOOD. My point exactly about family environment.
Why don't you find some SUCCESS stories instead of looking at the failures and learn something from them? Why go any doctor who says there is nothing he/she can do about it? Try hynotherapy.
If all else fails, get a tummy tuck or whatever they call that surgery that decreases the size of your stomache. It worked for Al Roker.
Obesity has numerous causes, I agree that focusing on success stories can be very benefical.
Yes, there are thyroid problems, emotional problems, heredity, and diet, but everyone is different, and the causes are as different as the people who are suffering from it.
I volunteered at the Astrodome in Houston after the Katrina hurricane, and I can tell you that the top two medical conditions that plagued the New Orleans evacuees were, diabetes, and high blood pressure caused by obesity. These were generally lower income families on welfare, but NO ONE was suffering from starvation.
Diets high in saturated fats, culture, heredity, and an inactive lifestyle, were probably all contributors. Boredom, and depression can play a part in over-eating too.
Many evacuees have remained in Houston, and I have seen some of the teen aged children since then, and several have lost weight due to lifestyle changes, and a more active lifestyle. I know it isn't the solution for everyone, but don't forget that diet, and excercise can also off set some of these factors too. I don't mean to insult anyone who is suffering from a conditon that has caused their weight problems, but I also wanted to express that SOME obesity problems can be prevented, and solved through these changes.
How did this dude drop the 400 lbs.? Did he get a phycologist? or did they just cut back on his caloric intake?
^ I meant psychologist! I guess I was thinking about about the girth of his tree trunk legs. Geeze, poor guy.
8:53 Anonymous
From what the TV show revealed, he did it by a combo of both. The doctors had to make houses calls because it's impossible for him to move. Another poster above brought up another interesting point -- that someone has to be prepping and serving the food. In each instance of all those profiled there was a family member who provided the food, shopped for it, cooked it, served it. There was a child, approx 4 yrs old who was morbidly obese and his mother served him his food on a tray while he was watching TV.
Thank you for the information Catherine, I don't know if they went into this area of questioning, but how does he go to the bathroom? His legs don't look like they could support his weight, and it doesn't look like he could lift himself up to slip a bedpan under him, he could wee in a bottle, but what about the other waste?
10:28 Anonymous
Good question and one that was voiced among my friends and I who watched it. Interestingly enough, not a word was said about that; guess they wanted to retain some small amount of privacy. My guess is a wrap of some sort like a diaper -- the weight prohibits lifting and the amount of waste would be enormous, so maybe a huge garbage bag to encompass his personal area? Very little was said about personal hygeine except for the bedsores. He actually had a girlfriend who was shown bringing him food also. Her family was against her seeing him and she stopped for a while until they relented and said what the hell 'cause she started seeing him again.
a cure?
lmfao at you fatties
more than 90 percent of fatasses do not have medical conditions causing their obesity, so how is there are cure for something that is not a disease but a lifestyle choice?
and if you do not think it is a lifestyle choice then look at EVERY other country on the planet and their obese rates and note that the fat has become part of the american culture and this culture only
send this fucking guy to the sudan - bet he'll lose some weight
Hey Catherine-- this is 8:53/4:48: I feel the same way :-). Screw the sanctimonious sow!!! (Thanks for my new catchphrase.)
Hi 9:29/8:53/4:48
We both have to thank Crabbie for half of the sanctimonious sow insult. I was going to type 'sanctimonious cow' then remembered Crabbie used the wonderfully descriptive 'sow' earlier and putting the two together increased the value of the insult. So from now on when a "I'm so much better than you" babbling idiot comes aboard we can let out our call! I know we're not supposed to feed the trolls, but the snark in me can't resist sometimes. Besides I want to be worthy of this site and need to sharpen my fangs every once in a while on a dull troll.
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