hen I was growing up you would be ashamed of yourself if you point your finger on somebody or even stare at the person with "unusual" appearance. Today it is not just appropriate, it calls the "news". While we are worried about 50-80 pounds, Manuel Uribe from Monterrey, Mexico has a little tiny problem to lose 1,000 pounds. His original weight was actually 1234 lb, but he lost 400 pounds in the past year!

Manuel Uribe hold the distinction of being the heaviest man on earth. By the way, he is absolutely healthy - no high cholesterol, no triglycerides, and no diabetes and no high blood pressure. Amazing. He's even got a girlfriend! Doctors do not have an explanation for this fact. Brain chemistry, genetic mutation, addiction, psychological pain -- or an unhappy combination of all of them - makes "clinically severe obesity" one of the biggest mysteries of medicine. Currently on a diet - Manuel Uribe following The Zone - he now weighs 800 pounds, but still can't stand on his own, and spends his days in a special industrial-size bed. "I used to eat normal, just like all Mexicans do. … Beans, rice, flower tortilla, corn tortilla, French fries, hamburgers, subs and pizzas, whatever regular people eat. I worked as a technician, repairing typewriters, electronic calculators and computers. So I worked on a chair. It was a sedentary life," Manuel said.