Medical Mystery: Morbid Obesity

Manuel Uribe has not made the bed or the apartment in Monterrey, Mexico, left for five years.
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This is because, under the year £ 1200 was by many as the heaviest man in the world.

Currently, a diet that was - the territory - now weighs 800 pounds, but still can not be separated, and spend a day in a specific industrial-size bed.

"I had a problem with obesity for years, very important. I am gaining weight. I had all the programs that you can imagine," Uribe said.

"I used to eat normal, like all Mexicans. U2026% beans, rice, tortillas, flowers, corn tortillas, potatoes, French fries, hamburgers, pizza and used, regardless of eating from normal people. He worked as a technician, repairing typewriters, calculators and computers. I therefore worked with the chair. was the lack of physical activity, "he said.

Morbid obesity

Uribe is the additional weight of fast food and lack of exercise. Doctors call this obesity.

According to the National Institutes of Health ie, obesity weight of 20 percent or more of their ideal body weight and a threat to health.

Obesity is completely different. They are sometimes called "clinically severe obesity" means that 100 pounds or more above ideal body weight with a BMI of 40 or more.

Uribe is not gaining weight than the rest of us. Brain chemistry, genetic mutation, addiction, psychological pain - or an unhappy combination of all - makes obesity one of the biggest mysteries of medicine .morbid