BLOG 10 Fattest man: 'Food has absolutely devastated my life'

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12120689

 

Summary

Paul Mason is Britain’s fattest man he is estimated to be around 70 stone.

At his fattest, Paul Mason would eat  20,000 calories every day. He says he hates the way he looks. A documentary follows him as he prepares for surgery. Paul is almost constantly eating, bed bound for years and it costs social services  £2,000 a week to look after him. The surgeon says Paul’s condition is an addiction. Before his surgery he was putted on a strict diet and he lost  more than 20 stone. Paul hates what he has done to himself and the fact that he cannot control it.

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I think this is really shocking and sad. I cannot understand that it has come to this. People must have fed him, because he isn’t able to get out of bed. Why would anyone give this man this much food everyday and enable his addiction?

The article says it costs £2,000 a week to look after him. I’m wondering how much it costs to eat 20,000 calories every day. How can he afford this or are there again people enabling him? I love watching “help mijn kind is te dik” on the Dutch television and I think this is a problem that has something to do with the way we live today.

I really think this man should have been helped a long time ago and I really would like to know why people kept on feeding him.