Posted on 09/18/2015 4:39:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
He is now 120 kg and will soon leave hospital
A 17-year-old Saudi boy rated in 2013 as the heaviest man in the world has lost nearly 480 kg since he was airlifted out of his home confinement to hospital in 2013.
Khaled Al Shaeri was flown from his home in the Southern Jazan province to King Fahd Medical City in the capital Riyadh in August 2013 for treatment after his condition worsened due to a steady rise in his weight, which reached nearly 610 kg at that time.
Sada newspaper quoted doctors as saying Shaeri has shed 490 kg to reach 120 kg following a medical programme that started a few days after he was admitted.
“Khaled is in a good condition now after reach 120 kg and he can move much better…he will return to his home and practice a normal life soon,” the paper said, quoting Dr Ahmed Hikmi, who heads a medical team treating Shaeri.
Civil defence and health teams used a special crane and medical bed imported from the United States to move Shaeri to hospital on orders by late King Abdullah.
You think he would have lost some weight during ramadan...
I have no understanding of how anybody can get that heavy. The amount calories he would have to eat each day would probably burst a cow.
Almost 1100 lb over 2 yrs. That’s an aggressive loss average.
Maybe they operated on him and simply removed some? (Can they do that?)
Some people have disorders that prevent them from feeling full after eating. For instance, Prader-Willi syndrome causes people to feel perpetually hungry. I do not know if that is the case with this boy, but I would not be surprised if something similar is happening.
Being that fat or fat at all, is not always a case of simply overeating, etc. The body is extraordinarily complex, and comparing the human body to, essentially, a steam engine is abysmally stupid. We all know fat people, but we also know very skinny people. Skinny people can eat like crazy and never gain a pound. Fat people can just think about food and gain weight. It is a metabolic phenomenon and needs to be treated as such.
Is there an after picture?
I watched a program on T V last night about a man who had weighed almost 1000 pounds and had lost down to about 300 He had skin and flesh hanging all over his body that was surgically removed. He could walk with a cane after the skin was removed but he still looked awful. I don’t know how someone gets to that weight!
( I think I’ll get some ice cream and ponder this question)
There is almost no way that a 17 year old boy could get that heavy so early in life without having a severe eating disorder, and a weak willed enabler supplying him with foods. I can’t imagine how tall one must be to make body this level of weight match in proportion. 8ft 10inches?
My guess is he’s from a wealthy family, has been raised more or less neglected except for an endless windfall of material things. Nobody was allowed to say ‘NO more eating! Stop being a pig! This is nervous eating, not a normal appetite” The worrying part is if this kid could reach such weight at 17, heaven only knows what his body will do when he gets in his 40’s with a slower metabolism.
Provided he even lives this long.
Like Obama said, “he didn’t do this on his own, somebody helped to make this happen.”
Too many trips to allah’s Snackbar.
>Some people have disorders that prevent them from feeling full after eating.
I never feel fulfilled after stopping someone from trying to kill me, but I don’t start shooting innocents.
They tend not to because its hardto gauge anesthesi correctly on overweight people.
The problem isnt metabolism or illness its not seeking help when its apparent. Too many people are willing to accept weight gain as it is and explain it away as metabolism or disease and never seek medical help. I cant tell you the amount of people I have met that spin a canard on how much they eat and work out only to be found being lazy and eating more than they say.
I thought it was only Americans who were grossly obese.... this doesn’t make sense.... ;)
Ah, that explains it. Thanks!
“Being that fat or fat at all, is not always a case of simply overeating, etc. The body is extraordinarily complex, and comparing the human body to, essentially, a steam engine is abysmally stupid. We all know fat people, but we also know very skinny people. Skinny people can eat like crazy and never gain a pound. Fat people can just think about food and gain weight. It is a metabolic phenomenon and needs to be treated as such.”
Too logical. Freepers believe that all a heavy person has to do is “simply” stop eating, until they lose weight. So easy, I’ve read it right here.
Please.
Show me evidence of what you said.
I guess I’m correcting myself ... not sure. Did you say that or were you quoting?
1300+ lbs!? How the heck can anyone, let alone a teenage,r get that heavy and still be alive?
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