Obese Man Dies - The world's fattest man has apparently passed away at the age of 44 after taking his weight problem into his hands by undergoing a weight loss surgery.
According to obese man dies reports, the man identified as Keith Martin had undergone what seems dot be a life-changing weight loss procedure where a piece of his stomach was removed prior to his death, Mirror reports.
About eight months before he died, Martin, who is described as someone weighing 70 stone at his heaviest, had a gastric sleeve in hopes of ending his lengthy battle for weight loss.
However, the obese man has died after unfortunately contracting pneumonia.
He is survived by his two sisters, Sharon and Tine, who reportedly took good care of him in the recent years leading to his demise.
"We're still grieving. We miss him very much," Tina said.
So how did Martin end up being the world's fattest man alive that he was? The late obese man, whose life was being documented for Channel 5's "70 Stone & Almost Dead," once revealed that he was fond of eating "super-cheap gas food" and drinking large amounts of coffee and soft drinks.
Now because of his story, surgeon Kesava Mannur, who tried the best means of saving Martin from his then-imminent death, is asking the government to impose fast-food tax, reports Fox News.
"Keith, like many people, had some emotional issues and he turned to food for comfort," he said. "That type of behaviour is nothing new, but what is new is how easy it is for people in that situation to buy a lot of cheap junk food."
Mannur then went on, saying, "The government needs to make unhealthy fast food more expensive. Otherwise we'll continue to see more and more people like Keith. In the past few years I have treated several people who weighed between 45-60 stone."
"In Keith's case, it's a shame because he'd had successful surgery despite being high-risk because of his size. It was unlucky he then caught pneumonia," he explained. "Bariatric surgery can be a very good thing for the people who need it. "We can't ignore they are here and they need help."
Mannur continued by slamming obese people of the burden they become to the society.
"If they can get the weight off they can improve their health and mobility and maybe contribute to society rather than being a burden," the surgeon said. "Society needs to do more to encourage children to be healthy from a young age. They need to learn early about physical activity and a healthy diet."
The very obese man, who died recently, has reportedly been stuck in house for ten years prior his demise.
Martin was bedridden for the most part, but in the recent years, he apparently decided to shed off some pounds to qualify for the surgery.
"I started eating to ease the pain, and before I knew it, I was bingeing every time something upset me," Martin gushed of his condition in the documentary. "I've always been depressed. I am an agoraphobic- I'm afraid of public places- but it was never treated."
Meanwhile, another person who is making headlines lately after dying at the hands of NYPD officers was slammed for being obese.
Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York, said that Eric Garner's death could have been prevented if her were not obese, according to The Atlantic.
"You had a 350-pound person who was resisting arrest," King said. "If he had not had asthma and a heart condition and was so obese, he almost definitely would not have died from this."
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