I Eat 33,000 Calories a Day
on The Learning Channel (TLC)
07/21/2007 - 08/21/2007

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Food Addictions

Morbidly obese case studies.

In no uncertain terms it's shocking!!!

Andy

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:57:40 -0500, Andy <q> wrote:

>I Eat 33,000 Calories a Day
>on The Learning Channel (TLC)
>07/21/2007 - 08/21/2007
>
>Check local listings
>
>
>Food Addictions
>
>Morbidly obese case studies.
>
>In no uncertain terms it's shocking!!!
>
>Andy

I saw a show there last week with a guy who weighed 775 pounds. He
needed surgery but wouldn't stop eating to bring his weight down to a
level that surgery was safe. Pretty twisted IMO. They never said who
was supporting his fat ass. The only job he could possible get would
be as a wrecking ball.

Lou

On Jul 22, 11:31 pm, Lou Decruss > wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:57:40 -0500, Andy <q> wrote:
> >I Eat 33,000 Calories a Day
> >on The Learning Channel (TLC)
> >07/21/2007 - 08/21/2007
>
> >Check local listings
>
> >Food Addictions
>
> >Morbidly obese case studies.
>
> >In no uncertain terms it's shocking!!!
>
> >Andy
>
> I saw a show there last week with a guy who weighed 775 pounds. He
> needed surgery but wouldn't stop eating to bring his weight down to a
> level that surgery was safe. Pretty twisted IMO. They never said who
> was supporting his fat ass. The only job he could possible get would
> be as a wrecking ball.
>
> Lou

Ya know, these people can't even get up to use the toilet, let alone
go to the store to buy all this food.

When are their enablers going to be taken to task?

"Jeremy Bentham" > wrote

> On Jul 22, 11:31 pm, Lou Decruss > wrote:

>> I saw a show there last week with a guy who weighed 775 pounds. He
>> needed surgery but wouldn't stop eating to bring his weight down to a
>> level that surgery was safe. Pretty twisted IMO. They never said who
>> was supporting his fat ass. The only job he could possible get would
>> be as a wrecking ball.

> Ya know, these people can't even get up to use the toilet, let alone
> go to the store to buy all this food.
>
> When are their enablers going to be taken to task?

I don't understand it myself. There was some person who was so
enormous they had to take down a wall to remove them from the
house. His sister or whoever said she brought him two dozen
donuts every morning (and that was just the beginning) ... I guess
it just sounds easy to us but, maybe you should stop bringing him
donuts?? Not like he's running out to the store if you don't.

Must be something else going on that I don't get.

nancy

Nancy Young said...

> I guess
> it just sounds easy to us but, maybe you should stop bringing him
> donuts?? Not like he's running out to the store if you don't.


One of the case studies, stuck in his bed, if he didn't get fresh food he'd
dial out for delivery. Then when it arrived, he'd put his money in a bucket
and lower it by rope five floors and the delivery guy would exchange money
for food. Then he'd hoist it up and chow down, not even sitting up to eat,
just laying on his side. With an oxygen breathing tube in his nose.

He did have standards. "Never, never, never, never, ever, never order
delivery at night!"

After that program another, "The world's largest man" came on. A portly
1,240 lb. man. So many rolls and folds of flesh it didn't look humanly
possible to get like that. Well, any of them for that matter.

No purpose in life other than eating. They're practically not humans, just
beings.

[shudder]

Andy

"Andy" <q> wrote

> Nancy Young said...
>
>> I guess
>> it just sounds easy to us but, maybe you should stop bringing him
>> donuts?? Not like he's running out to the store if you don't.

> One of the case studies, stuck in his bed, if he didn't get fresh food
> he'd
> dial out for delivery. Then when it arrived, he'd put his money in a
> bucket
> and lower it by rope five floors and the delivery guy would exchange money
> for food. Then he'd hoist it up and chow down, not even sitting up to eat,
> just laying on his side. With an oxygen breathing tube in his nose.

That's crazy. Is he independently wealthy? That's got to cost.
Besides, if he's paying cash, someone's bringing that home to him.
You gotta wonder.

nancy

Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>
> I don't understand it myself. There was some person who was so
> enormous they had to take down a wall to remove them from the
> house. His sister or whoever said she brought him two dozen
> donuts every morning (and that was just the beginning) ... I guess
> it just sounds easy to us but, maybe you should stop bringing him
> donuts?? Not like he's running out to the store if you don't.
>
> Must be something else going on that I don't get.


It's a strange world and people will always find someone else to blame. A
few months ago I watched a program on television about a thousand pound
man. It was sickening. The guy was pathetic. They laid out a sample of the
food the guy eats on a daily basis. There was hardly space in the room for
all the plates of food. His daily intake was considerable more than my
total groceries for the two of us for a week. Obviously he had help along
the way. I find it difficult to understand how an individual cannot see
their own problem and act on it, but it is even harder to understand how
those around a person like that can enable it.

Lou Decruss said...

> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:57:40 -0500, Andy <q> wrote:
>
>>I Eat 33,000 Calories a Day
>>on The Learning Channel (TLC)
>>07/21/2007 - 08/21/2007
>>
>>Check local listings
>>
>>
>>Food Addictions
>>
>>Morbidly obese case studies.
>>
>>In no uncertain terms it's shocking!!!
>>
>>Andy
>
> I saw a show there last week with a guy who weighed 775 pounds. He
> needed surgery but wouldn't stop eating to bring his weight down to a
> level that surgery was safe. Pretty twisted IMO. They never said who
> was supporting his fat ass. The only job he could possible get would
> be as a wrecking ball.
>
> Lou


Did you see the History Channel's "HOOKED: Cocaine"? It documents cocaine
and it's history and dangerous usage..

They very quickly made their point. They gave monkeys IV doses of cocaine
and then after a time gave the monkeys a choice of socializing with other
monkeys or staying alone and getting dosed with cocaine. The monkeys
preferred to stay alone with cocaine. Eventually the monkeys got to choose
between cocaine and food and they chose cocaine over food and eventually
starved to death!

YI-YI-YIKES!!!

Opposite extremes but similar excessses wouldn't you agree?

Andy

Andy wrote:
> I Eat 33,000 Calories a Day
> on The Learning Channel (TLC)
> 07/21/2007 - 08/21/2007
>
> Check local listings
>
>
> Food Addictions
>
> Morbidly obese case studies.
>
> In no uncertain terms it's shocking!!!
>
> Andy

There was a recent documentary here on some similar cases being treated
in Italian hospitals. It appeared, it was said, that something was
wrong with the ability to make the hormone that turns the appetite off.
Ergo, these people felt like they were starving all the time.

One fellow was in Mexico and was being treated from afar because they
couldn't fly him here.

Italians are overall a relatively slim population, so the morbidly obese
are even more noticeable and people worry.

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Giusi wrote:
>
>
> One fellow was in Mexico and was being treated from afar because they
> couldn't fly him here.
>
> Italians are overall a relatively slim population, so the morbidly obese
> are even more noticeable and people worry.

I keep hearing that from Italians. What happens when they come to Canada
and the US where the tend to be fat?

Dave Smith wrote:

> Giusi wrote:
>
>>Italians are overall a relatively slim population, so the morbidly obese
>>are even more noticeable and people worry.
>
> I keep hearing that from Italians. What happens when they come to Canada
> and the US where the tend to be fat?

One of my friends lives in Southern Brazil and the majority of the
population are Italian (including my friend). The people are tall and
thin. The women wear skin tight jeans and high heels, and the men dress
like they stepped out of GQ. They look very different than my Italian
friends in New Jersey.

Becca

Becca wrote:

> One of my friends lives in Southern Brazil and the majority of the
> population are Italian (including my friend). The people are tall and
> thin. The women wear skin tight jeans and high heels, and the men dress
> like they stepped out of GQ. They look very different than my Italian
> friends in New Jersey.
>
> Becca
Brazilians are known for their obsession with physical beauty. They get
a LOT of cosmetic surgery and procedures to keep them pretty, and they
have an enormous rate of C-section births on demand. From what I've read
about them I almost feel sorry for anyone born plain or not so pretty in
that country, lol.

"Goomba38" > wrote

> Becca wrote:
>
>> One of my friends lives in Southern Brazil and the majority of the
>> population are Italian (including my friend). The people are tall and
>> thin. The women wear skin tight jeans and high heels, and the men dress
>> like they stepped out of GQ. They look very different than my Italian
>> friends in New Jersey.

> Brazilians are known for their obsession with physical beauty. They get a
> LOT of cosmetic surgery and procedures to keep them pretty, and they have
> an enormous rate of C-section births on demand. From what I've read about
> them I almost feel sorry for anyone born plain or not so pretty in that
> country, lol.

How funny, I just got back from the dentist and he and the
dental assistant (I'm sorry, I don't know what the profession is named)
talked about this very subject. He goes to Aruba often, and he was
talking about the beautiful South American women in their bikini bottoms
and she said, how about when they get older, do they keep their figure?
No, absolutely not, he replied. We were laughing, and they still
walk around topless! Same with the older men and their speedos,
you can't even tell they have one on, it's hidden by the belly.

nancy

Goomba38 wrote:

> Becca wrote:
>
>> One of my friends lives in Southern Brazil and the majority of the
>> population are Italian (including my friend). The people are tall and
>> thin. The women wear skin tight jeans and high heels, and the men
>> dress like they stepped out of GQ. They look very different than my
>> Italian friends in New Jersey.
>>
>> Becca
>
> Brazilians are known for their obsession with physical beauty. They get
> a LOT of cosmetic surgery and procedures to keep them pretty, and they
> have an enormous rate of C-section births on demand. From what I've read
> about them I almost feel sorry for anyone born plain or not so pretty in
> that country, lol.

Funny you should mention that, because my friend in Brazil is a plastic
surgeon. She has done surgery on two of my friends from the US, and I
tagged along.

There is one thing I noticed in a large, galleria shopping center, that
was unusual. They did not have any clothing stores for women, but they
had plenty of clothing stores for men. The women purchase their clothes
in department stores. The women are drop dead gorgeous, they do not
need any extra help. LOL

Becca

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:23:42 -0500, Becca > wrote:

>Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> Giusi wrote:
>>
>>>Italians are overall a relatively slim population, so the morbidly obese
>>>are even more noticeable and people worry.
>>
>> I keep hearing that from Italians. What happens when they come to Canada
>> and the US where the tend to be fat?
>
>One of my friends lives in Southern Brazil and the majority of the
>population are Italian (including my friend). The people are tall and
>thin. The women wear skin tight jeans and high heels, and the men dress
>like they stepped out of GQ. They look very different than my Italian
>friends in New Jersey.
>
>Becca

must be the air.

your pal,
blake