A London man believed to be the world’s fattest has died. Keith Martin, 44, died from pneumonia following a lengthy battle with his weight,
The Telegraph reports.
His death comes eight months after Martin — who weighed nearly 1,000 pounds at his heaviest — had undergone a successful weight-loss surgery to remove three-quarters of his stomach.
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Had he lived he would have lost hundreds of pounds and regained his ability to walk and live a normal life, according to head surgeon Kesava Mannur who operated on Martin at Homerton Hospital last year.
Mannur supports new U.K. health guidelines that encourage doctors to suggest weight-loss surgery for anyone with a BMI higher than 30 and Type 2 diabetes.
He added: "The government needs to make unhealthy fast food more expensive. Otherwise we'll continue to see more and more people like Keith."
Before he died, Martin admitted much of the weight had come from eating huge amounts of super-cheap fast food. He would eat 20,000 calories a day — almost 10 times the recommended amount.
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