Jack Taylor, reportedly the fattest man in Britain (50 stone)
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Fattest man dies at 50 stone
Jack Taylor, reportedly the fattest man in Britain, has died in the
week in which his home city was revealed as having the largest
proportion of overweight people.
Mr Taylor, who weighed more than 50st (320kg), had rarely ventured
outside his front door for 30 years other than for hospital
appointments. He spent his days watching videos and eating.
Mr Taylor, 60, left his flat in Bradford, West Yorkshire, for the final
time when he was lifted out on a stretcher with the aid of eight
firemen. He had died of a heart attack. Mr Taylor's girth - he wore
specially made trousers with an 80in waist - had been the source of
some fame in recent years including a role in The Fattest Men in
Britain on ITV1.
A spokesman for Men's Fitness, which conducted the survey of towns
with larger residents, said: "No one should have to die like that in
the 21st century. Britons are eating too much and not getting enough
exercise. You can't blame people for being overweight if they don't
know any better, or if they can't afford to eat the healthiest food
or join a gym. People need more help."
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Brad Ferguson
<deb...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Mr Taylor, who weighed more than 50st (320kg), had rarely ventured
> outside his front door for 30 years other than for hospital
> appointments. He spent his days watching videos and eating.
So what name did he use when he posted here?
MWB
"Brad Ferguson" <thir...@frXOXed.net> wrote in message
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Sonehenge.
Mark
Glitter Ninja
>50 stone= approx. 700 lbs. We've got Americans twice that! USA! USA!
When I was a kid, the Guiness Book of World Records had a guy listed
as fattest man -- Robert Earl Something-or-other, I think -- and he was
over 1,000 pounds. The Discovery Channel shows people of that weight or
more in specials. They're all American. What I never understood was
how people kept bringing the bedridden 1,000 pound people food. Bring
them a doctor, not a Big Mac. Jeez.
Stacia
deb...@comcast.net
Robert Earl Hughes (June 4, 1926 - 1958) holds the world record for the
largest chest measurement ever recorded on a human, at 124 inches (10
feet 4 inches or 3.15 m). He weighed 486 kg (1,071 lb).
Hughes was honored by the "snack rock" band The Go-nuts in a song named
after him on a 7" vinyl record released in May of 1997 on Lookout!
Records.
Brad Ferguson
<sta...@xmission.com> wrote:
I have a network of friends who, by coincidence, watched a show on
Discovery a while back called "The Half-Ton Man." I saw it, too. I
don't know why we were all indepdendently drawn to it, but we all
reacted the same way to the guy who'd lost the weight and then gained
most of it back: We wanted to kill him. He had a whiny, singsong
voice, and he used it to explain why he'd eaten his way back up to
nearly half a ton. "I had a soda," he said (close paraphrase here),
"and of course when you have a soda you have to have fries, and when
you have fries you have to have cheese sauce on the fries." Meanwhile,
there were shots of his wife -- I think it was his wife -- serving him
a heap of twenty-four pork chops for dinner.
As you say, the record used to be around a thousand pounds. Now you
see people on TV twenty percent bigger than that, and more.
The Kentucky Wizard
Yeah, but you couldn't play it, that sucker weighed a ton.
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