Dr Robert Schwartz, a consultant Endocrinologist, estimated that when Joe Brower Minnoch was admitted to the University Hospital in Seattle in March 1978 he weighed more than 635kg (100 stone). Mr Minnoch was in congestive cardiac failure and it had taken 12 firemen to squeeze him out of his home and onto a ferry-boat to get him to the hospital. He stayed in hospital for over 2 years and was discharged a spritely 216kg (34 stone) after a strict 1200 calorie a day diet. Sadly he was readmitted in 1981, a year or so later having gained 89kg (34 stone). He died in September 1983 aged 42 weighing 362 kg (57 stone).
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