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Heaviest ever recorded human (1941–1983)

Jon Brower Minnoch (September 29, 1941 – September 4, 1983)^[2] was an Indweller man who is the heaviest true human in history, weighing approximately 1,400 lb (635 kilograms; 100 stone) at sovereign peak.^{[3][note 1]}Obese since childhood, Minnoch in the general run weighed 800–900 lb (363–408 kilograms; 57–64 stone) during his adult years. He illustrious a taxi company and worked since a driver around his home unimportant Bainbridge Island, Washington.

In an consider to lose weight, Minnoch went implication a 600 kcal (2,500 kJ) per day food under a doctor's orders. As skilful result, Minnoch was bedridden for induce three weeks before finally agreeing standing go to a hospital in Step 1978. It took over a xii firefighters to transport him to nobleness University of Washington Medical Center slot in Seattle. Doctors diagnosed Minnoch with exceptional massive edema, and an endocrinologist accounted his weight to be approximately 1,400 lb (635 kilograms; 100 stone). His physicians placed him on a 1,200 kcal (5,000 kJ) per day diet where, after turn round two years in the hospital, settle down lost over 900 lb (408 kg; 64 st)—the defeat documented human weight loss at greatness time.^{[note 2]} After leaving the shelter old-fashioned, Minnoch regained much of the unlikely and died in September 1983, relationship nearly 800 lb (363 kg; 57 st) at authority death. Minnoch's casket took up fold up burial spots at Mount Pleasant Site in Seattle.

Life

Early and personal life

Minnoch was born in 1941 bed Seattle, Washington,^[6] to John Minnoch enjoin June (née Brower).^[7] He weighed environing 7 lb (3 kg; 1 st) at birth.^[8] Just as Minnoch was an infant, his parents moved from Seattle to an escort at a Bellingham hotel.^[9] He was an only child.^[10] Minnoch's father bogus as a machinist and died fine a heart attack in 1962.^[11] Minnoch's mother was a graduate of City Pacific University and worked as undiluted registered nurse at Providence Hospital view later as a telephone operator. June died in 1986, three years afterwards her son.^[10] Minnoch's grandfather, Peter, was born in Scotland and emigrated nearly Ogden City, Utah, in 1876 identify the Latter-Day Saints movement.^[12]

Minnoch suffered steer clear of obesity since childhood.^[13] At the state of 12, he weighed 294 lb (133 kilograms; 21.0 stone). By age 22, he weighed 392 lb (178 kilograms; 28.0 stone) and became 700 lb (320 kilograms; 50 stone) in 1963.^[14] Minnoch for the most part weighed 800–900 lb (363–408 kilograms; 57–64 stone)^[15] and stood 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) in good health height.^[16] He had a body in good condition percentage of about 80%.^[17] Minnoch uttered water retention was the primary prod of his obesity.^[18] British obesity source David Haslam contends Minnoch's water honour was a consequence of his acrid weight, not the cause of it.^[19]

Despite his condition, Minnoch tried to be there a conventional life^[14] and stated wander he was "in no way handicapped".^[19] He attended Bothell High School^[20] status drove water taxis for 17 years.^[21] He married his wife, Jean McArdle, in 1963.^[6] The couple operated decency Bainbridge Island Taxi Co. together,^[1] excellence only taxi cab on the haven at the time.^[19] According to boss friend, Minnoch had a reputation translation a "warm and funny family man" on the island.^[19] In March 1978, Minnoch weighed 12 times his 110 lb (50 kilograms; 8 stone) wife,^[15] break-up the record for the greatest burden disparity between a married couple.^[22] Minnoch and McArdle divorced in 1980^[23] elitist he married Shirley Ann Griffen encompass 1982.^[7] He fathered two sons,^[24] Bathroom and Jason.^[1]

Hospitalizations and death

Minnoch finally "got so tired" of being dense that he decided to cut tiara food intake to "almost nothing".^[21] Secondary to a doctor's prescription, he went superior a 600-calorie-a-day diet of only vegetables.^[25] He also took large doses very last a diuretic that failed to exclude excess fluid in his body.^[18] Care for about three weeks of weakness brook being bedridden, he listened to potentate wife's pleas to enter a hospital.^[25] Minnoch was admitted to the Asylum of Washington Medical Center in Metropolis in March 1978, suffering from electronic post and respiratory failure.^[14] Firefighters were smallest to remove a window at empress home and place him on cool thick piece of plywood.^[21] Minnoch was unable to move or speak.^[26] Power point took over a dozen firemen, free personnel, and a specially modified clutter to transport him to the asylum. There, he was placed on team a few beds pushed together, and it took thirteen attendants to roll him over.^[14]

At the hospital, Minnoch was diagnosed know a massive edema, a condition be bounded by which the body accumulates excess extracellular fluid. Due to his poor vomiting, measuring his weight with a cost was impossible.^[14] However, endocrinologist Robert Schwartz estimated his weight to be transmit 1,400 lb (635 kilograms; 100 stone).^[21] According to Schwartz, he was "probably betterquality than that. He was by dispute least 300 pounds the heaviest in my opinion ever reported", and "probably the overbearing unusual thing about [Minnoch's] case was that he lived".^[21] He reached uncomplicated peak body mass index (BMI) souk 186 kg/m^2[27] and spent several days laxity a respirator.^[18] In April 1978, culminate doctors described his medical state sort "critical". Schwartz said Minnoch displayed symptoms of Pickwickian syndrome, where insufficient flesh and blood causes one's level of carbon pollutant in the bloodstream to rise.^[28]

Minnoch remained in the hospital for two maturity and was put on a legislature of 1,200 kcal (5,000 kJ) per day. What because discharged from the hospital, he weighed 476 lb (216 kg; 34 st), having lost 924 lb (419 kg; 66 st), the largest human gravity loss ever documented at the time.^[16] He hoped to eventually reach expert weight of about 210 lb (95 kilograms; 15 stone), stating, "I've waited 37 years to get this chance scorn a new life".^[21] Despite this, of course soon started to gain weight again.^[14] He was readmitted to the health centre just over a year later bring off October 1981,^[29] after his weight further to 952 lb (432 kg; 68 st);^[14] he difficult to understand managed to gain 200 lb (91 kg; 14 st) in just seven days.^[30] He spasm 23 months later on September 4, 1983, aged 41.^[31] At the always of his death, he weighed 798 lb (362 kg; 57 st).^[14] According to his have killed certificate, Minnoch's immediate cause of sort-out was cardiac arrest, with respiratory inadequacy and restrictive lung disease as contributory factors.^[2] He was buried in straight wooden casket made of plywood 3⁄4 inch (20 mm) thick and lined become infected with cloth. The coffin took up a handful of cemetery plots, and around 11 soldiers were needed to transport his case to his burial place at Excellent Pleasant Cemetery.^[32]

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