Well, not only do we have several Olympic gold medalists, hold The Ashes and boast the current and elect Formula World Champions but also, according to The Sun, Britain is home to the world's fattest man!
Weighing in at 70stone he maintains his...er... fighting weight by consuming 20,000 calories a day and remaining in bed, mainly because he is too 'ill' to get out of it.
A NHS spokesperson explained that if he doesn't receive drastic stomach surgery he could be dead in ten years.
Arrangements are being made to transport him to a specialist hospital where gastric by-pass surgery is the most likely option.
At the same time surgeons will perform liposuction so that the cost of the treatment can be offset by selling the fat to an oil burning power station where it is estimated it will fuel the burners for at least three months.
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ianrthorpe
- 2009-10-20 @ 18:45:20
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Teri watched a program the other night (and insisted on giving me a running commentary while I was trying to sleep) about a Texan woman who weighed 64 stone (about 900 lb).
cue for a song:
will you still feed me, won't you please bleed me
when I'm sixty four stone"
Anyways, this thirtysomething woman was told she would be dead in ten years if she did not have stomach surgery. She had the op and was dead in ten days.
You can't trust anyone.