Half-Ton Mexican Man Loses 200 Pounds
`Health officials said Manuel Uribe weighed 1,235 pounds when he made a desperate plea for help on national television in January.
Unable to leave his bed for five years, the 41-year-old mechanic in the northern industrial city of Monterrey longed to move again.
His plea was answered by doctors and nutritionists who prescribed a high-protein diet, helping him lose about 200 pounds since then.’
followup to Man weighing 1,200 pounds seeks life-saving surgery in Italy.
