38 year old Andres Moreno from Ciudad Obregon in Sonora Mexico, known as the fattest
man in the world who weighs about 980lbs suffered a heart attack and died while
being rushed to the hospital.
Football
Superstar, Christiano Ronaldo sent him a signed Real Madrid shirt to
encourage him to lose weight before he did a weight loss surgery. Publicist. Carmen Palacios said Moreno weighed 700lbs at the time
of his death and they needed a team of seven staff to put him on the reinforced
stretcher before taking him to the hospital.
He went
through the surgery even though he knew that it was risky. “I want to show them that no
matter how large they are, there is still hope.” The
operation involved removing about 70 percent of his stomach to re-route a
lengthy portion of his small intestine in order to reduce meal quantities and
the absorption of calories from food.
The heart
attack which led to his death wasn’t his first, as he had suffered a couple of
others before and he was already bedridden and suffering a number of serious
illnesses.
Moreno who
is a former police officer got dumped by his wife as his weight gain
progressed. “I
lost my wife who I lived with for three years because I was fat. I realized I
was putting on more and more weight and getting bigger but it was like a
snowball I couldn’t stop. Friends and family would visit me and when they went
I was left alone crying and sad because of my situation and begging God to put
me back on the right path.”
The Surgeon
who performed his operation, Jose Anthonio Castaneda said ahead of it that he wouldn’t have
lasted another five years without it. Moreno had plans to set up an
organization to help other obese people keep in shape.
Mexico has
a record for a large number of overweight population, the former fattest man in
the world was also from there before he passed away last year.
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