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From: GeekBoy on 8 Oct 2008 10:21
Tacos do that to you everytime.


"Juan" <juan(a)overtheborder.com> wrote in message
news:20081008111643.C8D604E4A7(a)outpost.zedz.net...
> http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/10/07/mexico.halfton.man.ap/index.html
>
> Story Highlights
>
> * Jose Luis Garza went on Mexican television asking for help
> * At funeral, family members criticize officials for not moving Garza to a
> hospital
> * Official: "Moving a patient of that magnitude is very difficult."
> * Heart failure is the cause of death, family says
>
> JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- A 990-pound (450-kilogram), bedridden man who had
> appealed on Mexican television for help tackling his weight problem died
> Tuesday of heart failure, his family said.
>
> Emergency officials had to knock down Jose Luis Garza's bedroom wall and
> load him onto the back of a friend's pickup as he fought for his life. The
> 47-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital in northern
> Mexico.
>
> Garza followed in the footsteps of the world's fattest man, fellow Mexican
> Manuel Uribe of Monterrey, by taking his weight problem public. Garza
> lived
> about an hour away from Uribe in the town of Juarez.
>
> Garza said he always struggled with his obesity, but that he fell into a
> desperate cycle of depression and overeating nine months ago after his
> parents died of natural causes within two weeks of each other. He had been
> bedridden for four months.
>
> Garza's condition deteriorated over the weekend as he struggled to breathe
> and eat. At his funeral, family members slammed state officials for not
> moving Garza to a hospital in Mexico before he became critically ill.
>
> "If he had received support at the time he asked for it, he would still be
> with us," said his brother Pedro Garza.
>
> State officials argued there was little they could do.
>
> "The attention he would have received at a hospital would have been the
> same he got at home," said Julio Cesar Cano, spokesman for the Nuevo Leon
> state health department. "Moving a patient of that magnitude is very
> difficult. A normal ambulance won't work."
>
> Uribe, whose record weight of 1,230 pounds (560 kilos) earned him a place
> in the 2008 Guinness Book of Records, has claimed to have lost around 550
> pounds (250 kilos) by following the Zone Diet invented by Dr. Barry Sears.
>
> Uribe tried to help Garza by sending him kiwis, grapefruit, pears and a
> protein supplement. Uribe's fiancee, Claudia Solis, delivered the food on
> Friday evening.
>
>
>

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