A 32-year-old Mexican weighing 500 kg left his home on Tuesday to the applause of his neighbors. He already weighed 60 kilos at 6 years old.
Leaving your home is a trivial matter for most people. But this is not the case with Juan Pedro Franco Salas. This 32-year-old obese Mexican, who already weighed 60 kg at 6, now displays 500 kg on the scale.
On Tuesday, November 15, 2016, it was therefore under the cheers of his neighbors that he got out of bed. A first in six years. That day, the inhabitant managed to join the ambulance parked in front of his home to return to the hospital in the region, relates ITV News. The purpose of this outing was medical, since Juan will go on a six-month diet before undergoing surgery to lose weight.
10 kg per year for 30 years
“I think there is new hope, a door is opening for me with this operation”, hopes Juan Pedro Franco Salas. The latter also explained to the press his long descent into hell: 3.4 kg at birth, then 10 kg each year, with the result 230 kg at 17 years.
But this is not a record, it is held by an American with 635 kg. This is Jon Brower Minnoch who died prematurely in 1983. The man was 42 years old and then weighed 362 kg, after weight loss.
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