Manuel Uribe was a chubby kid, weighing more than 250 pounds as an adolescent. Starting in 1992, his weight began ballooning further. Since the summer of 2002, Uribe has been bedridden, relying on his mother and friends to feed and clean him. He keeps a television and a computer he uses to update his Web site near his iron bed."People think that I can eat a whole cow but it's not just overeating, it's also a hormonal problem," Uribe said. Manuel Uribe, the 43-year-old mechanic in the northern industrial city of Monterrey who was once certified by doctors as weighing 1,235 pounds (560kg) in 2006 earning him the Guinness World Record as the world's heaviest man. Uribe has lost 550 pounds (250kg) since February 2006 following the high-protein diet. Manuel Uribe, who hasn't left his bed in six years, now married his longtime girlfriend whom he met four years ago, Claudia Solis Sunday in northern Mexico. Wearing a white silk shirt with a sheet wrapped around his l...
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