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un autografo prima che lascino questo mondo di lacrime.....
http://www.dimensionsmagazine.com/dimtext/kjn/people/heaviest.htm
The World's Heaviest People
Human beings have been getting remarkably fat since prehistoric 
times (to judge by such artifacts as the celebrated Venus of 
Willendorf), and accurate weighing is mostly a twentieth-century 
phenomenon, so the heaviest man or woman ever must always remain 
a matter of conjecture. Every age and culture has a tale of some 
remarkable heavyweight, but how much these Paul Bunyans of bulk 
have grown in the telling is impossible to say. A few such 
stories have come down to us from classical times. The Roman 
physician Galen, writing in the first century, cites the case of 
one Nichomachus of Smyrna, who was so heavy that he could 
neither move nor be moved from his bed. Other authors tell of a 
Roman senator who was able to walk only when two slaves carried 
his belly for him, and of a latter-day Egyptian pharaoh whose 
belly was broader than the span of a man's outstretched arms.
Dionysius of Heracleia was notorious for his appetite, and 
eventually grew so weighty that he could scarcely budge: he 
suffered from apnea or narcolepsy besides, prompting his doctors 
to prick his flesh with needles whenever he fell asleep on his 
throne. A contemporary poet has him declare that he aspired to 
end his days "on my back, lying on my many rolls of fat, 
scarcely uttering a word, taking labored breaths, and eating my 
fill," for of all the ways a man might die, an excess of luxury 
was the only truly happy death. Nevertheless, he lived to what 
was then the ripe old age of 55, earning a reputation for 
fairness and generosity that competed with his size as an object 
of astonishment.
A man observed by the celebrated Dutch physician Hermann 
Boerhaave took his meals at a table that had been cut away in a 
semicircle to accommodate his circumference: not having slaves 
to help him, he used a sling worn around his shoulders to carry 
his belly. A Gentleman's Magazine of 1789 acquainted readers 
with a man who hadn't left his bed under his own power for three 
years: to change the sheets, he was hoisted up with pulleys. (He 
was said to be in good health, aside from a rheumatic complaint 
typical of his 80-plus years.) In 1889, an attempt was made to 
put a young French woman of Plaisance on exhibit, "but eight men 
could not move her from her room, and as she could not pass 
through the door the idea was abandoned." And for each of these 
stories, hundreds - if not thousands - more must have been 
recorded only in local legend, and then forgotten.
The Guinness Book of World Records was for many editions the 
definitive source of information on the heaviest contemporary 
men and women. But in recent years, the book that made stars of 
the McGuire twins has curtailed its annual list. Perhaps the 
editors simply ran out of space, or perhaps they got disgusted 
with the increasing exploitation of such individuals by diet 
centers and TV talk-show hosts (each of whom needs his own super-
 heavyweight to meddle with, the way monarchs once needed court 
dwarfs). In either case, it seems time for someone else to take 
up the torch, and Dimensions seems the obvious home for such an 
enterprise.
Here, then, is a list of every known individual who has staked a 
claim to a weight of 900 pounds or more, in descending order of 
magnitude. Estimated (or possibly exaggerated) peak weights are 
marked with an asterisk, while unverified (or unverifiable) 
stories are marked with two. New entries, photos, and updated 
information are always welcome. Those looking for a higher moral 
purpose in this catalog of wonders may note how often these 
lives have been cut short by venal, inadequate, or positively 
clueless medical care. How much healthier would the lives of 
lesser fat people be, if biographies like these were the subject 
of discussion in professional journals rather than supermarket 
tabloids? - KJN
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  *   1.  Carol Yager (1960 - 1994) of Flint, MI; 5 ft 7 in, 
estimated to have weighed more than 1600 lbs at her peak. She 
had been fat since childhood. In 1993, she was measured at 1189 
lbs when admitted to Hurley Medical Center, suffering from 
cellulitis. She lost nearly 500 lbs on a 1200-calorie diet, but 
most of that weight was thought to be fluid, and she regained 
all of it and more soon after being discharged. Her teenage 
daughter, a boyfriend, and a group of volunteers helped take 
care of her. Despite extravagant promises by diet maven Richard 
Simmons and talk-show host Jerry Springer, Yager received little 
practical assistance in return for her media exposure (though 
Springer continues to profit from her appearance on his show, 
having rebroadcast that episode at least four times). She was 
refused further hospitalization on the grounds that her 
condition was not critical, despite massive water retention and 
signs of incipient kidney failure, and these problems led to her 
death a few weeks later.
 
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  *   2.  Jon Brower Minnoch (1941 - 1983) of Bainbridge Island, 
WA; 6 ft 1 in, estimated as weighing "probably more than" 1400 
lbs in 1979, at which point it took 13 people just to roll him 
over in bed. Minnoch, like many of the heaviest people, suffered 
from massive edema: his weight was augmented by at least 900 lbs 
of fluid at its peak. The former taxi driver had always been 
unusually heavy, reaching 400 lbs in 1963, 700 lbs in 1966, and 
975 lbs in 1976, but he claimed to have been in no way 
handicapped by his size until a 500-calorie diet sapped his 
muscle strength and left him at the brink of death. Subsequent 
hospitalization brought him down to 476 lbs in 1981, mostly 
through the loss of 12 to 14 pounds of fluid per week. He was 
readmitted later that year after regaining 200 lbs in seven 
days. Although physicians at University Hospital in Seattle 
persisted in treating him with a 1,200-calorie diet, he weighed 
about 800 lbs at the time of his death. Other details of his 
physical condition were withheld from the press. Minnoch was the 
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  *   3.  Roselie Bradford (b. 1944) of Sellersville, PA; 5 ft 6 
in, measured at 1053 lbs, but estimates that she weighed more 
than 1200 lbs at her peak two years earlier, a claim accepted by 
Guinness. Already over 300 lbs when she dropped out of college, 
Bradford became an exercise instructor, running seven miles 
three times a week, but continued her steady gain in weight. At 
374 lbs she underwent an intestinal bypass operation, which 
caused serious complications. She was back to 350 lbs when she 
married her husband Bob in 1973, reached 500 lbs after the birth 
of her son, and as her body grew, so did her appetite. After 
contracting septicemia in the early 1980s, she spent most of the 
next decade in bed, eating - as much as 15,000 calories per day. 
It wasn't unusual for her to put away three large pizzas in 40 
minutes (washing them down with diet soda), then ask for 
dessert. At her peak, she measured eight feet wide, and took up 
two reinforced king-size beds. Her bustline measured over 100 
inches, and her hips carried 200-lb "saddlebags" that hung down 
her thighs as far as her knees. "People would visit me and sit 
on the bed, not realizing they were sitting on part of me," she 
recalled. When she fell out of bed, rescue workers used an 
inflatable cushion designed to right overturned cars to get her 
back into place. After being treated for symptoms of heart 
failure, she was eventually persuaded by Richard Simmons to 
embark on a five year diet, an experience she described as 
hellish. Tortured by hunger, by fast-food commercials, and by 
dreams in which she ate without limit, she nevertheless got down 
to under 300 pounds, setting a world's record for weight loss. 
She later sued the Star tabloid for suggesting that she couldn't 
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  *   4.  Michael Edelman (1964 - 1992) of Pomona, NY; Guinness 
listed him at 994 lbs, but his mother estimates that he weighed 
some 1200 lbs at his heaviest. He had already reached 154 lbs at 
age seven, and left school at ten because he could no longer fit 
into the desks. After that he spent most of his time in bed, or 
sharing massive meals with his 700-pound mom. Michael liked to 
start the day with four bowls of cereal, toast, waffles, cake, 
and a quart of soda, and end it with a whole pizza with the 
works for a bedtime snack. Mother and son tried every new diet 
that came along, "but after a few days, we'd reward ourselves 
with a chocolate cake. Then we'd call for a pizza and that would 
be it." When the two were evicted from their Wesley Hills home 
in 1988, Michael had to be moved by forklift. After his exposure 
in the press, dozens of hospitals and diet promoters vied to get 
him in a weight-loss program, but Michael was determined to get 
thin on his own. He appeared in three different tabloids in one 
week when he publicly vowed to lose enough weight to consummate 
his relationship with 420-lb Brenda Burdle, but the couple grew 
apart when they both gained weight instead of losing it. After 
the sudden death of Walter Hudson (below), with whom he had 
formed a long-distance friendship, Michael developed a 
pathological fear of eating. He rapidly lost several hundred 
pounds, taking nourishment only when spoon fed. At about 600 
lbs, he literally starved to death. (Link - 1)
 
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      5.  Walter Hudson (1944? - 1991) of Hempstead, NY (born in 
Brooklyn, NY); 5 ft 10 in, measured at 1197 lbs (though the 
industrial scale broke in the process of weighing him). His 
chest was measured at 106 inches, his waist at 110. Hudson was 
discovered by the press in 1987, when he became wedged in the 
door of his bedroom and had to be cut free by rescue workers. An 
agoraphobic, he'd spent most of the past 27 years in bed. Hudson 
lived with his family, where his appetite was always indulged, 
and gave every indication that he was content with both his 
weight and his situation. "I just ate and enjoyed it," he said. 
Despite his massive size, Newsday reported that he was 
extraordinarily healthy: his heart, lungs, and kidneys all 
functioned normally, while astonished doctors noted that his 
cholesterol and blood-sugar levels "showed the chemistry of a 
healthy 21-year-old." Even so, activist-turned-nutritionist Dick 
Gregory managed to convince Hudson that losing weight was 
necessary to save his life. Gregory used Hudson to promote his 
Bahamian Diet, and claimed that his protegé lost at least 200 
lbs (sometimes claiming as much as 800 lbs) under his care, but 
when Hudson refused to perform for the cameras on cue, Gregory 
summarily abandoned him. Other celebrities and diet promoters 
also claimed to have helped him lose massive amounts of weight, 
though Newsday noted that Hudson never seemed to look any 
thinner. (Gregory threatened to sue his rivals for $50 million.) 
Hudson himself gave conflicting stories, sometimes claiming to 
weigh as little as 480 lbs or as much as 1400. He only allowed 
himself to be weighed once. Hudson died in his sleep after years 
of intermittent starvation dieting, a few weeks after announcing 
wedding plans. His body was found to weigh 1125 lbs, and his 
massive coffin required twelve pallbearers. (Links - 1, 2) 
 
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  *   6.  Francis John Lang, aka Michael Walker (b. 1934) of 
Gibsonton, FL (born in Clinton, IA); 6 ft 2 in, believed to have 
reached a maximum weight of 1187 lbs. Lang had weighed only 150 
lbs as a soldier in Korea. He blamed his masssive weight gain on 
prescription drug abuse, claiming that his narcotic of choice 
had the side effect of giving him an uncontrollable appetite. 
Though unable to walk (a handicap that kept more than one fat 
lady out of the side show), Lang found a unique way of 
capitalizing on his situation: he had a mobile home built with 
observation windows, and traveled the country putting himself on 
display at carnivals and fairs. Lying nearly nude on an oversize 
circular bed, he preached to the curious about the evils of 
drugs, using his own body as the moral lesson. His peak weight, 
claimed for him by Christian Farms of Killeen, TX, in the summer 
of 1971, was unverified, but Guiness Superlatives found 
photographic evidence to be reasonably conclusive. In early 1972 
Lang was hospitalized in Houston for a suspected heart attack, 
at which time he was estimated to weigh between 900 and 1000 
lbs. His symptoms proved to be caused by an inflamed 
gallbladder, probably aggravated by his weight loss, and the 
examining physician declared his heart to be "unusually normal." 
By 1980, Lang had reportedly reduced to 369 lbs. (Link - 1)
 
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 **   7.  Johnny Alee (1853 - 1887) of Carbon (now Carbonton) 
NC; said to have reached a maximum weight of 1132 lbs. Alee 
developed a ravenous appetite at the age of ten, and put on 
pounds so rapidly that by age 15 he could barely support his own 
weight. Grown men couldn't get their arms around one of Alee's 
thighs, and he could no longer squeeze through his own front 
door. Getting from his armchair to the dinner table, with plenty 
of help, was all the mobility he could manage. He was said to 
have died after falling through his cabin floor, and his 
postmortem weight was determined on the coal company scales. 
Guinness was never able to verify this story.
 
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      8.  Robert Earl Hughes (1926 - 1958) of Monticello, MO 
(buried in Mt. Sterling, IL), 6 ft 1/2 in, weighed 1069 lbs in 
February, 1958. Hughes began life at a healthy 11 1/2 lbs, and 
progressed to 203 lbs at 6 years, 378 lbs at 10, 546 lbs at 13, 
693 lbs at 18, and 947 at 27. His weight made him a national 
celebrity: even his custom-made blue jeans made news. At his 
peak, he claimed a chest girth of 124 inches and a 122-inch 
waistline. His untimely death was due to kidney failure 
following a bout with measles: unable to fit through the door of 
a hospital room, he'd been treated in a truck trailer parked 
outside. The story that he was buried in a packing case made for 
a grand piano is untrue. His coffin was built to order, and he 
was eulogized as a man whose heart was as big as his body. Life 
magazine called him a relatively light eater. (Link - 1)
 
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 **   9.  Mohamed Naaman (b. 1946) of Kenya; 6 ft, a tabloid 
story says he attained a maximum weight of 1055 lbs, though he 
managed to reduce to a mere 770 lbs, with an 87 1/2 inch 
waistline. "I've had to learn to drink tea without milk," he 
says. Naaman is the father of 21 children by five wives.
 
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    10.  Man, name withheld (ca. 1939 - ca. 1986), of New York 
State; just under 5 ft 7 in, 1050 lbs. His death was due to 
complications following a massive panniculectomy ("tummy tuck") 
to remove fat tissue, performed at Long Island Jewish Medical 
Center, New Hyde Park, NY. His peak weight was determined by 
adding the weight of the tissue removed by the operation (104 
lbs) to the patient's postmortem weight of 946 lbs. According to 
his physicians, he was healthy when he checked in, and his "past 
[medical] history was unremarkable except for extraordinary 
weight all his life."
 
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    11.  Carol Haffner (1936 - 1995) of Hollywood, FL; 1023 lbs. 
Haffner had been a regular at the Seminole Tribe Bingo parlor, 
where the operators bought a special chair to accomodate her 
girth. But after the death of her husband, depression and 
advancing weight kept her bedridden, and she spent her last five 
years in her trailer - leaving only once, with the assistance of 
a crew of firefighters, during a hurricane evacuation. Friends 
said she had been on the phone with talk shows and diet 
promoters, trying to finance a trip to a Boston- based obesity 
program, but she'd resisted hospitalization for her breathing 
difficulties, and died of heart failure two weeks after her 59th 
birthday.
 
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  * 12.  Mike Parteleno (b. 1958) of Struthers, OH; 6 ft (some 
sources say 6 ft 3 in), claimed a maximum of 1022 (or 1023) lbs 
while a spokesman for Dick Gregory's Bahamian Diet. Prior to his 
association with Gregory, Parteleno claimed to weigh a mere 645 
lbs, and was a popular favorite in belly-flop contests.
 
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    13.  Mills Darden (1798 - 1857) of North Carolina; 7 ft 6 
in, 1020 lbs. Darden was an acromegalic giant. His wife, who 
bore him three (some sources say five) children before her death 
in 1837, weighed only 98 lbs.
 
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    14.  John Finnerty (b. 1952) of Amity Harbor, NY; 1012 lbs. 
He surfaced in the media only once, when firemen were called to 
take him to Brunswisk Hospital Center for treatment of 
bronchitis. "He was laying on a queen-size mattress, and rolls 
of fat just hung off both sides," said the local fire chief. "He 
moved like a big bowl of Jello." Finnerty was taken to the 
hospital on a flatbed truck, and was said to be responding well 
to treatment. His subsequent history is unreported.
 
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 ** 15.  Jerry Currant (b. 1938) of Los Angeles, CA; 6 ft 2 
in, "more than" 1000 lbs. According to the tabloids, Currant was 
a gourmet chef who kept his weight under 600 lbs until 1983, but 
then began gaining steadily. Weighed on a meat scale in 1987, he 
topped 976 lbs, but remained mobile until September of 1988. In 
1989 he was diagnosed with colon cancer by a visiting doctor, 
and transferred to a hospital through a hole cut in his 
apartment wall. He claimed to have no interest in losing weight.
 
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  * 16.  Sylvanus "Hambone" Smith (1941 - 1997?) of Tifton, GA; 
6 ft 2 1/2 in, aprox. 1000 lbs. Smith claimed to have weighed 
almost 16 lbs at birth, and 275 lbs by age 11. At his peak, he 
had a 103-in hip girth and 70-in thighs. He worked as a chef 
until his increasing weight left him confined to bed, then ran a 
pawnshop out of his home. Smith underwent a stomach-stapling 
operation in 1981 (at 602 lbs), served as a spokesman for Dick 
Gregory's Bahamian Diet in 1987 (at 730 lbs), and was attempting 
yet another drastic weight loss program, sponsored by Geraldo 
Rivera, at the time of his death. He had also recently married 
20-year-old Tammy Humphries, who weighed only 125 lbs. Smith was 
the father of one son and four daughters by a previous marriage. 
His children ranged in weight from 312 to 587 lbs at ages 22 to 
30.
 
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  * 17.  David Ron High (1953 - 1996) of Brooklyn, NY; 5 ft 10 
in, aprox. 1000 lbs. High was touted as Dick Gregory's biggest 
success story in 1986, when he reduced from 823 lbs to 427 lbs 
on a year-long fast supplemented by fruits and vegetables. (He 
lost three inches in height as well, shrinking from a peak of 6 
ft 1 in.) High had been fat since childhood, and claimed he used 
to eat just one meal a day - all day. "The pizza shop loved me," 
he recalled. "I was a great customer - and they even named a 
pizza after me. It was the only pizza in the world with 
spaghetti on it!" A decade after his graduation from Gregory's 
International Health Institute, a team of city firemen needed a 
hydraulic lift remove the ailing High from the Brooklyn 
apartment where he'd spent the last five years. He was taken to 
the obesity center at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, where he 
died after less than a month on another weight-loss program.
 
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  * 18.  Michael Hebranko (b. 1954) of Brooklyn, NY; 6 
ft, "nearly" 1000 lbs. Hebranko weighed an average 8 1/2 lbs at 
birth, but weighed 350 lbs by the time he was 16. Hebranko says 
his appetite kept pace with his expanding size: "I had a dozen 
eggs, a loaf of fried bread and syrup for breakfast - then I 
really started eating." He first came to public view as a 
spokesman for diet promoter Richard Simmons in 1989, claiming in 
infomercials and talk-show appearances that Simmons had helped 
him to go from 907 lbs to less than 200 lbs. In fact, Hebranko 
actually lost at least 50 lbs to a panniculectomy, and had 
additional fat tissue surgically removed from his arms, chest, 
and legs; he also suffered from severe edema, and had lost a 
great deal of water weight. In 1996, Hebranko made news again 
when he was taken to a hospital for treatment of a gangrenous 
infection. Rescue workers had to remove a bay window to make an 
opening big enough for his 110- inch waistline, and carried him 
in a stretcher designed for transporting killer whales. He had 
been unable to move from a loveseat in his home for the previous 
ten weeks, during which time he had added as much as 150 pounds 
to his already 850-pound physique, most of it fluid. Simmons 
tearfully vowed to slim him down again. (Links - 1, 2, 3)
 
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 ** 19.  G. Hopkins (late 18th century?) of Wales; 980 lbs. 
Hopkins was said to have been brought to a London fair in a 
sturdy cart pulled by four teams of oxen, where an enterprizing 
promoter displayed him in a stall alongside some prize hogs that 
were too fat to stand up. The enormous Welshman astonished the 
paying crowds as much by his appetite as by his unparalleled 
bulk. After one stupendous meal, though nearly stuffed to 
bursting, Hopkins tried to grab a tasty morsel that was just out 
of reach and toppled off his bench. He landed on a nursing sow, 
killing the poor animal, and flattening her piglets beneath 
him "like salted herrings." It took fifteen sturdy men to hoist 
him back onto his seat, and then only with great difficulty, for 
his stomach was packed so full of food that the skin around his 
middle was stretched tighter than a drumhead, and no one could 
get a grip on it. Hopkins' weight (measured on a steelyard built 
for weighing fully-loaded wagons) is variously reported: this 
presumably authoritative figure is taken from a 19th-century 
medical encyclopedia.
 
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  * 20.  Denny Welch (b. 1960) of Hamilton, OH, 980 lbs. Welch 
achieved notoriety as a frequent guest on the Jerry Springer 
Show, first in his role as a female impersonator, and later (as 
his weight climbed to more than 800 lbs) as the fat man in 
Springer's TV sideshow. In 1996, after Welch had been unable to 
leave his bed for four weeks, Springer paid to have a contractor 
remove a wall of Welch's home and transport him to a Cincinnati 
hospital for weight reduction, recording the entire spectacle 
for broadcast. Welch lost about 200 pounds, but by the fall of 
1997 he had regained it all and had developed heart and 
respiratory problems along the way, possibly as a result of his 
treatment with diet pills. In April 1998 he was back in the 
hospital, suffering from severe edema and congestive heart 
failure. His mother told the press that he now weighed 980 lbs., 
and "his body was so swollen, it looked like it was ready to 
burst." Welch also faces criminal charges for allegedly showing 
pornographic videos to minors. (Links - 1, 2)
 
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    21.  "Big Tex" (b. 1902, fl. 1956), presumably from Texas; 6 
ft 1 1/2 in, 924 lbs.
 
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    22.  Leonard Brown (b. 1953) of Panama City, FL; 920 lbs. 
Brown came to public attention in 1994 when he appealed for 
funds to attend the Complicated Obesity Rehabilitation Program 
at Jewish Memorial Hospital in Boston. The hospital had refused 
him admittance because his insurance failed to cover its $50,000 
fee. Brown didn't reach super-heavyweight status until after he 
suffered a near-paralyzing traffic accident in 1973. He eats 
sparingly, and remains as active as possible, but his injured 
legs can only carry him a few yards at a time. Six of Brown's 
siblings are also described as obese.
 
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 ** 23.  Ida Maitland (1898 - 1932) of Springfield, MS; 911 lbs. 
Mrs. Maitland reportedly had a bust measurement of 152 inches, 
and died while trying to pick a four-leaf clover. Guinness 
Superlatives labeled the story "totally unsubstantiated."
 
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    24.  "Mickey Mounds" (b. 1953), U.S.; 910 lbs. Reduced his 
weight to 364 lbs in February 1989.
 
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    25.  John Hanson Craig (1856 - 1894) of Kentucky; 6 ft 5 in, 
907 lbs. A chubby child, Craig weighed 77 lbs at eleven months. 
At the age of two he weighed 206 lbs, and carried off a $1,000 
prize in a "Bonnie Baby" contest held in New York City. He 
reached 402 lbs at age 12, 601 lbs at 21, 725 lbs at 25, 806 lbs 
at 30, and his maximum weight at 37, a year before his death. He 
left one child and a 122-lb widow.
 
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    26.  Arthur Knorr (1914 - 1960) of Reseda, CA; 6 ft 1 in, 
900 lbs. He set a record for gaining weight (later broken by Jon 
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  * 27.  Santiago Garcia (b. 1964) of Baytown, TX; 6 ft 1 in, 
aprox. 900 lbs. Garcia made the papers in 1994, when he was 
arrested for selling forged immigration cards. After proving too 
big for a cell, too wide for the shower, and too heavy for the 
forklift that tried to load him into a prison van, Garcia was 
released into the care of his family. (He was later sentenced to 
a year's probation.) According to the National Enquirer, 
Garcia "normally eats five meals a day, which include two 32-
ounce steaks, a half-gallon of ice cream, a container of cake 
frosting, a large pepperoni pizza, plus gobs of mashed potatoes, 
tacos, pork and beans, and eight packages of peanut butter 
cups." Unlike most super-heavyweights, Garcia hasn't let his 
size or the stares of onlookers confine him to his home: he 
travels around town in the back of his sister's van. 
 
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 ** 28.  Joselina da Silva (1959 - 1996) of São Paulo, Brazil; 5 
ft 3 in, 895 lbs. "Jô" began piling on weight at the age of 15, 
thanks to massive daily candy, cake, and Coca- Cola binges. She 
eventually grew too heavy to get out of bed, and needed the help 
of a dozen members of the São Paulo Fire Brigade to keep her 
clean and assist in her other routine necessities. When her 
situation attracted the attention of the local media, the 
Chacara Fitness Center (a prestigious fat farm) offered to take 
on the task of reducing her weight in return for the resulting 
publicity. Transferred to this facility in November of 1993 
(with the help of a construction crew that knocked down her 
bedroom wall), da Silva underwent a rigorous diet and three 
extensive surgical procedures to remove fat tissue, and by the 
beginning of 1995 had reached a low of less than 350 pounds. She 
moved out of the facility in March and found work nearby as a 
manicurist. It was only a matter of months before she had 
regained more than 200 pounds. In September of 1996, she was 
admitted to a hospital emergency room, and died soon after of 
aggravated double pneumonia. Her doctor (a prominent plastic 
surgeon) insisted to the press that her weight was to blame for 
her death, and also blamed a local candomblé faith healer for 
having convinced da Silva to abandon her diet. Da Silva's 
friends, on the other hand, said that she never ate more than 
the prescribed 420 calories per day, in which case she was 
probably just too weakened by prolonged starvation to fight off 
the infection. The fire crew that had helped care for her served 
as pallbearers at her funeral. [Note - though da Silva is 
officially five pounds too light for this list, many tabloid 
stories credited her with a weight of 900 pounds.] (Links - 1, 2)
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 un autografo prima che lascino questo mondo di lacrime.....
spero che venga il cancro incurabile a qualche tuo parente di primo 
grado e poi a te, così la smetterai di fare lo studentello sfigato (di 
ingegneria o cazzatelle simili suppongo, dalle troiatelle tecnologiche 
autocelebrative che inserisci qua e la) che si impippa con monologhi 
interminabili e inutili pensando di essere un genio della goliardia e ti 
dedicherai a sedute di chemioterapia e radioterapia nell'attesa di 
crepare come un cane inutile.

Buddha, se per caso ti becco fisicamente e esci da quel lurido orifizio
nel quale stai a scrivere e cercare tutte queste stronzate...
... ti riduco il culo ad un buddhino!

vabbè dai vi rivelo l'argomento dei miei passati studi 
universitari:
-cannibalismo ereditario
è la forma più pura, più istintiva e formalmente più laica di 
cannibalismo.
si pratica da migliaia di anni in tutto il mondo; semplicemente 
nella vecchia europa è stato rimosso dalla cultura 
del "perbenismo vegetariano" che ha indotto milioni di persone a 
ritenere peccaminoso sfamarsi medianti apporti calorici 
provenienti dalla medesima specie.
io però sono fautore della teoria della "generazione spontanea" 
secondo la quale un individuo affamato , obbligatoriamente 
obeso , lasciato privo di vincoli e condizioni al contorno , 
sarà irrimediabilmente attratto dalla carne umana altrui e 
indotto ad un atto di violenza istintiva pur di potersene cibare.
sto facendo tutto questo per la ricerca scientifica.... spero 
possiate capire.
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buddha ha scritto:
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bella quella delle condizioni al contorno... mi viene in mente analisi 2