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.
Moreno was overwhelmed when he received the shirt. He said:”Sometimes
you think that people live in another world way from the people, but
that is not the case. I feel as if I had gotten a Christmas gift before
Christmas.”
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.”
Credit: Pulse
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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