Wings of a Bird

Meeting the world's heaviest man - BBC News
... At his peak, he weighed 1234lb. That's half a ton. Small Japanese cars come in lighter.
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A short while ago, Manuel tried to take his own life, so depressed was he by his size.
But these days you could not meet a more engaging, funny and contented man.
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He lived for 14 years in Dallas, Texas, and he himself blames an unending diet of burgers, pizzas and fizzy drinks.
But the doctors and other scientists are not so sure.
They believe even the most gluttonous over-indulgence could not produce the kind of excess body weight Manuel has succumbed to. Instead, they think Manuel was super-sized by nature.
A fault in his genes which triggered the inflammation of his molecular structure.
Whatever the cause, the team of medics and nutritionists around him now have come up with a specialist diet that has produced remarkable results.
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"I take one day at a time," he says, "the doctors told me I had a choice. To choose life or to choose death. I chose life."