Saturday, January 3, 2009

Half-Ton Teen

I don't know if any of you happened to catch the TLC specials "Half-Ton Mom", "Half-Ton Dad", "Half-Ton Teen", but they were super interesting. These people they followed weighed at least half a ton if not more. One guy weighed over 1000 pounds. Here's some interesting facts you may not have known about these extremely obese people.
1) They eat around 30,000 calories/day. That's usually what you and I would eat in two weeks time.
2) Most are too big to do gastric-bypass surgery on. They end up losing hundreds of pounds before it is safe to perform the surgery.
3) One guy ate 5-6 pizzas at a meal. 3-5 hamburgers at another meal, plus several orders of fries, several drinks.
4) Over 200,000 Americans are so large they are no longer mobile.

Look for the re-runs because it was super interesting.

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