A Saudi Arabian man who officials say weighs 1,345 pounds has been fork-lifted out of his house on the orders of the king for treatment.
King Abdullah paid for a specially-equipped plane to take Khalid Mohsin Shaeri, who has become one of the heaviest people in the world, to hospital.
He has not been able to leave his bedroom in two and a half years and part of his home had to be demolished so he could be brought out from the second floor.
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The trouble is for most people, obesity is becoming more and more of a problem. Even though we may not think its the case, we have more money than our grandparents did and we spend more money on food. We throw more food away. We eat much larger portions and do less exercise.
Weight is simple case of mathematics. What goes in, must go out. If the amount of calories in exceeds what we work off then we put on weight. "But what about metabolism and being big boned?" ....excuses.
I thought that with a summer at home that I would try to lose weight. Change my diet.
Breakfast , fruit and fibre, yoghurt, milk...a glass of prune juice....just to help things on the way. Lunch a cup of soup with oatcakes to fill. Dinner....something involving vegetables, pasta, rice.
It's been four weeks and I have not gone near any spirits or a bottle of wine.
Not had a crisp. (Both of these things have been exceedingly difficult for me is they are all too regular vices.)
Not bought any chocolate to eat.
Also tried to do a 15 minute abdominal stretch workout each opening plus the occasional walk during the day.
Reducing my intake of carbonated drinks. There's a jug of water in the fridge for the cold squash.
The juicer is making a fruit smoothie to take me through the afternoon.
Result - put on a couple of pounds!!!
Mentally I think why am I going without the things that I love if its not going to have an effect?
The problem is therefore portion control. Eat better but learn to eat less. Rome wasn't build in a day so keep on trying.
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But what about Khalid.
When did he stop trying? Apparently the lad is not even 20 yet.
Where are his family and friends to council and support? Having read the article I can't see a photo of the parents.
Cases like this make the media all too frequently. I watched Jerry Springer do a special where they interviewed the person in their bed before they removed the wall to forklift them out of the house and onto a truck to get them to the hospital. In this case the wife was also quite a large woman but could at least walk and get into the bedroom door. she would come in with a tray (yes tray) covered in fried food to feed her husband who was so obese that he couldn't get out of bed.
....now this is the thing that bothers me. The person is so fat that they can't move. Can't get out of bed. So the food has to come to them.
If the wife had the guts to only bring in small portions of fruit and veg then maybe the husband would have had less guts in total.
Remember folks. The family that deep fries together -Dies together.
Where is someone like Paul McKenna, or someone with medical experience to use hypnosis to change he mindset of the patient?
Isn't it all a shame that in times of financial hardship, we spend too much money on food, eat it till we have health problems and in some cases can't work to earn money to buy more food and then become a financial burden on the state in order to get rid of the weight. It would be interesting to go back and see some of these people after they have come out of hospital having been given a second chance....and then a few years later.
For the relatively wealthy, there are fitness coaches who train with and devise exercise plans and dietary advice for busy people who do to have the time to exercise fully so need to exercise effectively. I can see a growing need for people like this to help support more and more.
What is the cost of saving Khalid's life and changing his mindset so he can live a normal life?.......compared to the amount of food that the lad has stuffed down his throat in just 20 years? A waste of money on both counts.
.....but to some people eating is a drug. how many times have alcoholics had liver transplants, only to go back to drinking.
......how many times have the lovely Kim and Aggie came round and turned festering pig styes that you and I wouldn't let a pig sleep in back into clean, habitable houses......only to turn up and find that the person has fallen back into their old ways. Too many clothes to go in a wardrobe so they leave the first item just lying on the floor and so the circle starts again.
How many times do we read about super hoarders who can't throw anything away so that their entire house ends up so full that you can hardly manoeuvre through it. Some people have died under landslides of rubbish or had so much that it has caused the floor to cave into the flat below.
Whilst all this makes good t.v. for those of us fortunate enough to not be in the same boat, I can't imagine our grandparents having to deal with these problems on the scale that ŵe see them today.
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