450kg Mexican man Jose Luis Garza dies ( 67 Views )

1. A 450kg Mexican man who went on television to ask for help about his weight has died of heart failure. In the ultimate humiliation, emergency officials had to destroy 47-year-old Jose Luis Garza's bedroom wall and put him in the back of a friend's truck as he fought for his life, the Associated Press reported. Mr Garza of Juarez was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital in northern Mexico. Mr Garza lived only an hour away from the world's fattest man, fellow Mexican Manual Uribe of Monterrey. He gained inspiration from Mr Uribe and followed him by taking his weight problem public. Mr Uribe, whose record weight of 560kg earned him a place in the 2008 Guinness Book of Records, tried to help Mr Garza by sending him kiwis, grapefruit, pears and a protein supplement, the Associated Press reported. Mr Garza said his weight and overeating had always been a battle, but became out of control following the death of his parents within two weeks of each other nine months ago.
   
   He had been bedridden for four months before he died, with his condition deteriorating over the weekend as he struggled to breathe and eat, the Associated Press reported. Family members said health workers should have taken Mr Garza to hospital before he became critically ill. "If he had received support at the time he asked for it, he would still be with us," his brother, Pedro Garza, said. Health workers said there was little they could do. "The attention he would have received at a hospital would have been the same he received at home," said Julio Cesar Cano, spokesman for the Nuevo Leon state health department. "Moving a patient of that magnitude is very difficult." About 150 friends and family waited for more than four hours at a cemetery in the Monterrey suburb of Guadalupe while carpenters built a special coffin for Mr Garza's burial. "The family wanted to cremate him but there wasn't an adequate oven for someone his size," funeral home worker Maribel Cantu said. "He is the biggest man we have buried."
   
   (levent, Turkey)

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