Move over Buster Simcus (if you can), a Brit is now the world’s fattest man!
Keith Martin, 42, tips the scales at 822 pounds, and is so large that he is bed-ridden.
His needs are putting an extra drain on the British NHS resources and costing the taxpayer thousands of dollars as he requires an army of 18 medical professionals to look after him, including ambulance staff, carers and nurses.
Eight ambulance workers must be on hand to help hoist his giant frame to a reinforced vehicle for frequent hospital visits close to his home in Harlesden, North-West London.
Trips for health checks are the only occasions in the past ten years on which he has left his bed. He also requires four carers to visit him twice a day and four nurses three times a week to wash him and monitor his health as his staggering weight is putting massive strain on his heart and other internal organs.
Medics say he would need to shed half his bulk before he could even be considered for a gastric band to aid his weight loss.
Mr. Martin took the crown of heaviest man on the planet after the previous title-holder – 1,260 pounds Mexican – went on a crash diet. Manuel Uribe, 44, is still listed as the heaviest man in the Guinness Book of Records but is believed to have shrunk to a relatively svelte 430 punds. Mr Martin has also overtaken another former world’s heaviest man, fellow Brit Paul Mason.
Mr Mason, a 51-year-old former postman from Ipswich, slimmed down from 980 pounds to 550 pounds after being warned he was dangerously close to death.
At the height of his binge-eating, Mr Mason would consume in excess of 20,000 calories per day and would be wheeled to local takeaways daily by his carers.
By 2002, he was so big that a 5ft window at his former home had to be removed and a forklift truck brought in to lift him when he needed to go to hospital for a hernia operation.
Keith Martin Daily Meals:
- Breakfast: typically starts the day with eight hot dogs and four slices of bread, or a pile of ham sandwiches followed by coffee with sugar.
- Lunch: A selection of chocolate bars, cakes, a packet of biscuits plus more coffees with sugar.
- Dinner: Two whole roast dinners with all the trimmings, or 16 sausages plus a family-sized bag of oven chips washed down with coffee.
Super-sized Mr Martin seems to have no plans to follow Mr Mason’s lead, and tells a Channel 5 documentary, due to be aired next week, that his life of excess was triggered by the death of his mother when he was a teenager.
‘My mother died when I was 16 and I didn’t care about anything after that and I couldn’t care less about what happened to me – I ate anything and everything,’ he said.
‘I blame myself. It was my fault and I hate what I have done to myself.’
Mr Martin has not had a girlfriend for 20 years and can no longer find clothes that fit him, as he is 5ft 9in with a six- foot waist.
He relies on round-the-clock support from carers and relatives with his two sisters taking it in turn to carry out house visits. He spends his days watching television and gorging on sweets, cakes, biscuits and sausages.
Mr Martin is one of several morbidly obese Brits to appear in the TV program Big Body Squad, which aims to raise awareness of the plight of more than a million similarly overweight people who cost taxpayers millions of pounds in home help costs every year.
Nichola Jones
Daily Mail
He reminds me of Cartman from South Park. BEEFCAKE!!!
Thats not Megan Fox !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I said BEEFCAKE, not CHEESECAKE.
Why is the focus of this story on how much of a drain his situation is on the NHS??
This man needs and deserves to be helped !!
What I fail to understand though – if he is completely bedridden, WHO on earth is feeding him such ridiculously unhealthy meals & bringing him sweets to gorge on inbetween ?!?
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My heart breaks for these people. I recently lost 72 pounds, with 25 more to go. I know how hard it is to do. I realize these people need medical intervention, but I have to respect Manuel Oribe for doing it with diet and exercise instead of gastric bypass,. I have also chosen the diet way. I am determined to never gain the weight back!
Who the he'll was feeding him :-((((
I hope the fork lift operators had proper occupational health and safety training perth. A man's life is in their hands, after all.
A combination of bad diet and genes. Doctors and nutritionist told him to exercise and use best pre workout supplements for better calorie burning activities.
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That lady's fat could power a city for 2 years
It must be one pretty powerful forklift to be able to lift these behemoths off their beds. Around half a ton of humanity is no laughing matter.
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