About a third of the population in Europe and the United States is overweight. Doctors around the world are sounding the alarm, noting an increase in the number of obese patients, even among infants. Millions of people torture themselves with diets every day in the hope of losing weight.
Today's Top 10 includes the hardest people in the world, whose weight has exceeded the unthinkable mark of 400 kg.
10. Manuel Uribe
Manuel's maximum weight was 597 kg, however, with the help of doctors and nutritionists, he managed to lose more than half of his heavy burden. Since February 2012, Uribe weighs 200 kg.
9. Walter Hudson
Hudson's Life: 1944-1991. Its maximum weight was 543 kg. Walter holds the record for the world's largest waist with a circumference of 300 cm.One of the heaviest people in the world ate 12 eggs, a loaf of bread, two chickens, 4 potatoes, a large sweet pie, 4 hamburgers and 17 liters of water per day.
8. Rosalie Bradford
Rosalie has two entries in the Guinness Book of Records on her account. She was first listed as the heaviest woman in the world, and then as the woman who lost the most fat. Already at the age of 14, Rosalie weighed 92 kg, by the age of 40 her weight had reached 544 kg. However, thanks to diets, Bradford managed to lose 416 kg.
7. Michael Hebranko
Michael managed to lose weight from 411 kg to 90, reducing the size of his waist from 290 to 91 cm.However, Hebranko could not keep more or less normal weight. A few years later, he weighed 500 kg.
6. Patrick Duel
Patrick's maximum weight was 410 kg. For 12 months of enhanced dieting, Duel managed to lose 240 kg. He is one of the few who managed to keep his weight at the achieved 170 kg mark for a long time.
5. Robert Earl Hughes
Hughes years of life: 1926 - 1958. At the age of 6, Robert weighed 92 kg, at 10 - already 171 kg. The maximum weight of a man was 486 kg. He died of acute renal failure.
4. Mary Rosales
The maximum weight of a woman was 470 kg. Obesity helped Mary escape jail. She was accused of murdering her mother and sister, however, the court considered that the woman was too fat to commit such actions.
3. Kenneth Brumley
Brumley's maximum weight was 468 kg. However, he managed to lose 76 kg in 40 days, adhering to a diet in which the calorie content of the daily diet should not exceed 1200 Kcal.
2. Mills Darden
Darden's years of life: 1799-1857. It is believed that Mills was one of the most difficult people in history. Its weight ranged from 450 to 500 kg. The man's height was 2.3 meters, he would be envied tallest women the world.
1. Carol Ann Yager
Carol was the hardest woman in history with a maximum weight of 550 kg with a height of 170 cm. During the three months of her stay in the clinic, the woman managed to lose 236 kg, but the weight quickly returned. Carol died at 34 from acute renal failure.