Posted on 07/26/2010 11:06:49 AM PDT by Weird Tolkienish Figure
By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 10:16 AM on 26th July 2010 Britain's fattest woman has died from a heart attack after her family smuggled takeaways and junk food into her hospital room, it has been revealed. Junk food addict Sharon Mevsimler, 40, weighed 45 stone and needed an oxygen mask due to the strain her weight put on her heart and lungs. But witnesses at Broomfield Hospital - where she had been a patient for two months - said relatives brought in fish and chips and family-sized buckets of fried chicken to the mother-of-four.
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Sounds like her family wanted to be rid of her.
Would you like a mint?
630 pounds is nothing these days. We have WAY fatter people than that here. Can’t Britain beat the US at anything?
Seriously though, food addiction is really bad. Unless you are a relative or super-best-friend of someone with this issue, you don’t know how really bad it is. Normal people can’t get that fat.
But what can they do? Just let her die? She also does have to eat, paradoxical as that may sound. It’s a dilemma for health care.
(OM NOM NOM...)
LOL! You’re an optimist!
No problem as long as the insurance of all people who participate in self-destructive behaviors is terminated, i.e. heavy drinking, drug use, promiscuity, homosexuality, "extreme" sports, aggressive driving.
Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?This is a great tagline, allmendream, but I actually think I have an answer for you. I know it's off-topic on this thread but this is where I saw your tagline so this is where I'll answer your question:
It's a three-step process:
1. Income is earned by the private entity.
2. Income is stolen by the government in the form of taxes. (DISTRIBUTED)
3. A portion of the stolen income is given to worthless losers who vote to keep the thieves in power. (RE-DISTRIBUTED)
And THAT is how income is re-distributed.
believe it or not, as an EMT I have been in a home where a woman could NOT fit through a doorway. she was wearing two sheets sewn together and had a fridge in the room....along with a commode. the debris on the floor was about six inches deep.....everywhere. stunk like heck in there. had to get on the floor to collar and backboard her mother who had fallen and couldn’t get up....she could not even assist her. she sat there bitching at us.
It's lunchtime and I could really go for some fried chicken right about now.
I blame the article.
I have to give you props on that one. That was one funny post!! As an aside, if you weighed all of the current living ‘Stones’, would that add up to more or less stones than 45?
If you are addicted to drugs, you can stop taking drugs and survive. If you are addicted to alcohol, you can stop drinking alcohol entirely, and survive. If you are addicted to eating, however, you cannot completely give up food - you still need to take in nourishment. That, I imagine, is what makes this type of addiction so difficult to overcome.
“Very sad. That kind of obesity and food addiction is in the realm of psychiatry.”
They are all nuts. She for eating, them for feeding her.
In more primative societies, self-destructive people would be cast out of the community, lest they harm others.
Ever heard of the old phrase “pull your own weight?”
Picture a native American tribe, pulling a 630 lb. woman across the prarrie, bringing back entire game animals to feed her, at the expense of the others?
On the other hand, a 630 lb. woman could bring down a mammoth just by leaning on it.
Wafer-thin mint embolism?
breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner and supper.
I think the operative question here is "How many buckets of chicken in a hogshead?"
Mick’s 67 today.
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