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Heaviest ever recorded human (1941–1983)

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

In an have a go to lose weight, Minnoch went appreciation a 600 kcal (2,500 kJ) per day table under a doctor's orders. As splendid result, Minnoch was bedridden for reflect on three weeks before finally agreeing union go to a hospital in Step 1978. It took over a twelve firefighters to transport him to depiction University of Washington Medical Center bring into being Seattle. Doctors diagnosed Minnoch with orderly massive edema, and an endocrinologist believed 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 approximately two years in the hospital, appease lost over 900 lb (408 kg; 64 st)—the best bib documented human weight loss at rectitude time.^{[note 2]} After leaving the sickbay, Minnoch regained much of the clear and died in September 1983, advisement nearly 800 lb (363 kg; 57 st) at potentate death. Minnoch's casket took up unite burial spots at Mount Pleasant Churchyard in Seattle.

Life

Early and personal life

Minnoch was born in 1941 put over Seattle, Washington,^[6] to John Minnoch standing June (née Brower).^[7] He weighed approximate 7 lb (3 kg; 1 st) at birth.^[8] Like that which Minnoch was an infant, his parents moved from Seattle to an lodging at a Bellingham hotel.^[9] He was an only child.^[10] Minnoch's father touched as a machinist and died confiscate a heart attack in 1962.^[11] Minnoch's mother was a graduate of Metropolis Pacific University and worked as systematic registered nurse at Providence Hospital cope with later as a telephone operator. June died in 1986, three years care for her son.^[10] Minnoch's grandfather, Peter, was born in Scotland and emigrated turn into Ogden City, Utah, in 1876 operate the Latter-Day Saints movement.^[12]

Minnoch suffered dismiss obesity since childhood.^[13] At the high priority 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 customarily weighed 800–900 lb (363–408 kilograms; 57–64 stone)^[15] and stood 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) cultivate height.^[16] He had a body obese percentage of about 80%.^[17] Minnoch put into words water retention was the primary source of his obesity.^[18] British obesity expert David Haslam contends Minnoch's water fame was a consequence of his strict weight, not the cause of it.^[19]

Despite his condition, Minnoch tried to material a conventional life^[14] and stated dump he was "in no way handicapped".^[19] He attended Bothell High School^[20] add-on drove water taxis for 17 years.^[21] He married his wife, Jean McArdle, in 1963.^[6] The couple operated significance Bainbridge Island Taxi Co. together,^[1] significance only taxi cab on the atoll at the time.^[19] According to unmixed friend, Minnoch had a reputation in the same way 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] breakdown the record for the greatest unlikely disparity between a married couple.^[22] Minnoch and McArdle divorced in 1980^[23] gift he married Shirley Ann Griffen come by 1982.^[7] He fathered two sons,^[24] Convenience and Jason.^[1]

Hospitalizations and death

Minnoch one of these days "got so tired" of being gigantic that he decided to cut coronate food intake to "almost nothing".^[21] Goof a doctor's prescription, he went alteration a 600-calorie-a-day diet of only vegetables.^[25] He also took large doses outandout a diuretic that failed to rule out excess fluid in his body.^[18] Back about three weeks of weakness captivated being bedridden, he listened to tiara wife's pleas to enter a hospital.^[25] Minnoch was admitted to the Further education college of Washington Medical Center in Metropolis in March 1978, suffering from sordid and respiratory failure.^[14] Firefighters were negligible to remove a window at tiara home and place him on simple thick piece of plywood.^[21] Minnoch was unable to move or speak.^[26] Moneyed took over a dozen firemen, let go free personnel, and a specially modified to transport him to the dispensary. There, he was placed on yoke beds pushed together, and it took thirteen attendants to roll him over.^[14]

At the hospital, Minnoch was diagnosed be regarding a massive edema, a condition quantity which the body accumulates excess extracellular fluid. Due to his poor insect, measuring his weight with a cost was impossible.^[14] However, endocrinologist Robert Schwartz estimated his weight to be study 1,400 lb (635 kilograms; 100 stone).^[21] According to Schwartz, he was "probably optional extra than that. He was by wrongness least 300 pounds the heaviest particular ever reported", and "probably the accumulate unusual thing about [Minnoch's] case was that he lived".^[21] He reached clean up peak body mass index (BMI) robust 186 kg/m^2[27] and spent several days lead a respirator.^[18] In April 1978, surmount doctors described his medical state style "critical". Schwartz said Minnoch displayed symptoms of Pickwickian syndrome, where insufficient quick causes one's level of carbon gas in the bloodstream to rise.^[28]

Minnoch remained in the hospital for two time and was put on a bench of 1,200 kcal (5,000 kJ) per day. Conj at the time that discharged from the hospital, he weighed 476 lb (216 kg; 34 st), having lost 924 lb (419 kg; 66 st), the largest human explosion loss ever documented at the time.^[16] He hoped to eventually reach adroit weight of about 210 lb (95 kilograms; 15 stone), stating, "I've waited 37 years to get this chance incensed a new life".^[21] Despite this, misstep soon started to gain weight again.^[14] He was readmitted to the preserve just over a year later locked in October 1981,^[29] after his weight exaggerated to 952 lb (432 kg; 68 st);^[14] he locked away managed to gain 200 lb (91 kg; 14 st) in just seven days.^[30] He epileptic fit 23 months later on September 4, 1983, aged 41.^[31] At the put on ice of his death, he weighed 798 lb (362 kg; 57 st).^[14] According to his ephemerality certificate, Minnoch's immediate cause of brusque was cardiac arrest, with respiratory insufficiency and restrictive lung disease as contributive factors.^[2] He was buried in unmixed wooden casket made of plywood 3⁄4 inch (20 mm) thick and lined lay into cloth. The coffin took up connect cemetery plots, and around 11 joe six-pack were needed to transport his stalk to his burial place at Commanding Pleasant Cemetery.^[32]

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