4.Jon Brower Minnoch
Jon Brower Minnoch was born in 1941 and held the record of the world’s largest man. At his peak in 1978 Jon Brower Minnoch tipped the scales at an estimated 635 kilograms or 1397 pounds. He had to be hospitalized.
After following a strict diet plan, Jon Brower Minnoch (USA), reduced to 216 kg (34 st) by July 1979, thus indicating a weight loss of at least 419 kg (66 st) in 16 months. This averages at 22.05 kg (3 st 9 lbs or 57.75 lbs) a month!
- He was admitted under Dr. Robert Schwartz for Anasarca or generalized edema in march 1978 and had respiratory difficulty and cardiac symptoms and Dr Robert found that his most body weight due to fluid or water (almost 400 kg)
- He married in this year with Jeannette and set a record for maximum weight difference between a couple (his wife was only 110 lbs). They had 2 children.
- He later transferred to University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle for better treatment and 12 firemen was involved to shift him.
- He lost almost 924 lb (419 kg) with strict diet restriction (1200 Kcal/day) and it was highest weight loss ever recorded (currently Manuel Uribe also lost 400 kg in 2012 and he is second weight loser ) But as his underlying cause was incurable , he was discharged on October 1981
- He died on September 10, 1983 and at that time his weight was 714 pounds( BMI was 105.3, more than 30 BMI indicates Obesity and it is >40 then it indicates morbid Obesity )
