A recent documentary about Britain’s fattest man has revealed his addiction to food and the many problems he faced because of it. The Daily Mail UK reported that Carl Thomspon, weighed 65 stone (413 kilos or 910 pounds) before succumbing to illness.
One complication he had was septicemia or blood poisoning.
Much footage was taken before he died. However, Carl died only a few weeks after filming was done. Emergency services found him lifeless on his bed last in June. They had to use a small crane to move him from his home in Dover, Kent.
Carl was not always this obese. In 2012, his mother Elaine Hoyle died of a brain tumor. This event triggered his his rapid weight gain. In just three years he shot up from 30 stone (190 kilos or 419 pounds) to 65 stone.
He appealed to the public after revealing that "I just can't stop eating," as reported by the Express. In interviews, Carl revealed that he would spend thousands of British pounds on fast food and take out per year.
He would get incapacity benefits and disability allowances and spend it all on food. In the past six years, he spent a whopping £22,000.
He would routinely consume 10,000 calories per day. This is four times the amount for one regular person’s consumption. He would eat family-sized pork pies and an entire loaf of bread slathered in bottle of jam with no problem.
Ever since he became totally bed-bound, he even gave a local restaurant, Q Pizza, a spare key to his apartment so that they may deliver his food directly to him.
His doctors warned him that at the rate he was going, he would not even last a year. This, unfortunately, turned out to be a too true.
The documentary is called "65 Stone and Trapped in My House" and it aims to provide awareness into obesity. It is, like many things, lacking in understanding from many people. For instance, there might be more to it than just willpower, as many people would like to believe. See here.
See the video below:
