Half Ton Man
Weighing the same as five baby elephants and a shade less than a Mini Cooper, Patrick Deuel is one of the heaviest men ever and a medical miracle. His heart and other organs should have collapsed long before he reached his record-breaking weight of 76 stone 8lbs. A wall has to be knocked out of his home so he can be taken to hospital – in a reinforced ambulance – where he is kept on a strict diet and loses a staggering 30 stone. After a gastric bypass operation he is sent home. It is now up to him to decide if he wants to live or carry on eating himself to death.
One of Patrick's supporters has been Rosalie Bradford, who was once the world's fattest woman. She was eight feet wide and could not leave the house. It was only when she realized her addiction to food was a response to being abandoned as a child that she lost an incredible 900 pounds.
Through the remarkable stories of Patrick and Rosalie, Body Shock anatomizes the science of extreme weight loss and the bewildering lives of the growing number of people who seem intent on eating themselves to death. Scientists think that years ago some people developed this fat gene to help them survive famine, but with today's high fat diet and couch potato lifestyle, that helpful gene has become something that can kill us.
I understand the weight problem,it for some of you that don't want to understand ,be very careful with drugs ,sex ,tobacco,alcohol,porn,etc.it is all the same be more understanding .it might sneake up on you one day and bite you on the butt so good luck with your outlook on other people
I can't figure out how a person can feed someone to death. Honestly, if someone was so fat they couldn't get out of bed, I'd tell him or her to get up and get it himself/herself.
After watching this, I don't feel like eating for a week.
This guy wasn't alive....laying there literally bursting at the seams. It should of never got that far. Sad
Part of the issue is these people also know nothing about nutrition. Please stop with the diet coke. I hate it when I go to a store and see somebody at the store with diet cookies, diet this, diet that. Dude, if you're on a diet you shouldn't be eating cookies. When I became a vegan all my cravings went away. I don't eat anything that comes out of a can or box. I make all my food. Stop shopping the isles people. Real food doesn't have a label.
there's millions of people on this planet suffering from starvation coz they have no choice, these people are obese they suffer their whole life then they die from overeating, God blessed us with a body to be able to navigate through life and understand its meaning but instead these people are destroying the body that God gave them and then turn around and say I love living and why did God do this to me when they are only eating out of boredom (why not cut ur wrist out of boredom, at least u wont suffer as much), people who eat out of boredom have no consideration or respect towards anyone who is starving on the other side of the world and as a result God implements Karma upon their eating addiction and they suffer their whole life then die in vain never knowing what the purpose of life was, as for me the purpose of life is to help the next human and in order to do that i keep my body and mind as healthy as possible, i live in Australia and have enough money to eat all day every day, but i only eat twice a day or sometimes if i'm being selfish i eat three times a day, The key is willpower and strict principles which is what most Americans lack due to the device that sits in the corner of their room which controls them, some call it "the hypnotist in the corner" others call it T.V i call it "a replacement for the average american brain" compliments of their government.
Fatties are going to be the "other" white meat when ZPOC goes down.
I was actually planing to eat cookies, but needless to say that no cookies were harmed during the watching of this video. I mean, it almost made me go on a diet. Almost! :)))
But really, the guy is very hard to empathize with: foul temper, completely dependent on mercy of other people, but he seems to think that he's in control and that they are acting out of fear of him. And the wife complements him perfectly to make sure that catastrophe is not avoided.
Very interesting story, I highly recommend it.
Patrick and his wife are despicable!!!! "Eat your chicken (KFC) it's protein" they deserve to be obese miserable and missing out on life when they're breaking the recommended nutritional guidelines like that. IDIOTS!!!!!
Patrick and his wife are despicable!!!! "Eat your chicken (KFC) it's protein" they deserve to be obese and miserable missing out on life when they're breaking the recommended nutritional guidelines like that. IDIOTS!!!!!
I watched 10 min of this and had to stop. As a health care professional I see my hospitals and aged care facilities filling up with people who refuse to take care of themselves, people who do things to their bodies to ruin them, and then they cry out for sympathy as if they have had no choice here!. I have dealt with eating disorders on both ends before and can empathize with the mental disorder that is anorexia, bulimia and over eating. After all, they all stem from the same mental issues. The thing that sickened me the most was he smoked!!! With everything the health system done for this man, he was smoking after all that! And whats with the friends and family. If he was laying in bed cramping up with dope sickness, would they bring him a shot of heroine? They may as well, it would cost the rest of us alot less to treat
I want to run into these peoples' homes and feed them raw food! This situation is a perfect example of American culture: depressing and pathetic; everything in excess EXCEPT education. There poor people know nothing about nutrition or really anything else. It all begins with education.
I understand this is a disorder and I tried to feel empathy for this man while watching this but I have to acknowledge that in reality all I could think was "what a sick fat bastard, how the hell could you be so weak???"
Why Why Why has this documentary not brought up the subject of the enabling people who feed the Obese? How could these supposedly loving spouses of these obviously obese and bedridden people keep plowing the food into the bedroom? These spouses should let the Fat yell and scream for more and ignore them!
I have a lot of empathy for people who struggle this way... except for this guy. He is big because he is an ignorant jerk and his wife is passive and submissive. He is an idiot. FEcal matter under his fingernails... is that someone else's fault too?
Obese people shouldn't justify their weight gain and elephant appetite on genetics. Otherwise we would see obesity all over the world. Really, it's not a coincidence that obesity is rampant in developed countries where food is cheap, and can be delivered right to your front door.
This man, however, can't really be compared with most of us. He probably has some deep-rooted psychological problems and should see a psychiatrist because his weight will most likely not be fixed solely with gastric-bypass. Something made him eat that 15,000+ calories daily, and when he reached a certain limit, he just gave up. I mean, this man is bleeding from his hands, and is drowning in his own fluids... He needs to talk to someone to find his motivation to live life. He's not happy. No one at 1000+lbs is happy, how can you be happy when you can't even talk, or barely breathe.
It's such a number of factors which added to his weight gain... his wife is obese too. They need counseling because, that pastor is right, it's practically assisted-suicide. They all just watched as he kill himself, and even fed him the poison. Just watch, he'll blame everyone but himself; his parents, his wife, his genetics... This man needs help to help himself.
To Michael and everyone else who want to lose weight: cut the bad carbs, mainly from cereal grains, and trans-fats out, sugars too, I'm talking about paleo diet. I excluded those three the best I could and lost 10-15 kilos even though I was trying to gain weight. My daddy took the same diet with a bit less natural fats than me and lost the same. Losing weight becomes harder the more you age, and you can't appreciate physical exercise enough in losing weight. Yet, what it's all about, is a lifestyle change and getting rid of an addiction, and it's way harder for you since an alcoholic doesn't need to drink in order to stay alive, a druggie doesn't need to use in order to stay alive, but you gotta eat in order to stay alive. You must recognice that difference and deal accordingly, whatever works for you.
Warning: Human situations consisting of disturbing and graphic images of total and absolute fat human people thingies. Do not say I didn't warn you.
who feeds him? how does he afford the food? I can barely afford to eat and I weight 135 and I work.
.... what a vile, ungrateful man.
Genetics my ARSE
Do you not notice at the 200 pund mark that maybe you should cut down on food intake and go for a run?
The calories does not sneak up on you, noone has ever gained weight whithout knowing. Eat less, move more, do not jojo-diet or give up, just turn it into a lifestyle!
to Suzie
Sadly it's complicated. From an outsider view it's always easy to point and make judgments. But when you can understand all the psychology behind it.. the partners are being like how anyone else would be with enduring a relationship like that. My mind is a bit rusty since I haven't seen this doc in a while. But With a pretty thorough understanding of eating disorders.. please just realize it's easy to point and judge without living through it.I do not blame the partners.
Why are the spouses of these people allowing them to eat all this disgusting food? My thoughts on that is that they enjoy the control factor. They like having their partner be completely dependant upon them to fulfil all their needs. Both the wives seemed less than happy when their partners were getting smaller and more independant. I don't care how much they are hassled to buy food, its still their choice when their partner is bedridden to sit by their bedside and hand feed them the poison they put into their mouths. Both the obese people and their partners have issues, and they are matched because they both get their needs met.
He doesn't eat high fat or high salt and he says this after finishing a notoriously high-fat, high-sodium KFC meal. hmmm.. I would be super curious if people with compulsion to eat were given leafy greens and fruit and nuts, like a rawfood diet, would they pack on the pounds? I seriously doubt it. I would like to see that experiment where a compulsive pleasure eater was given nothing but a Raw-food diet, even as much as they could eat. I bet the fat would drip like melting water as there is so few calories in a whole BULKY head of broccoli or celery. I would pay good money to see that action.