Oct 9, 2008

Half-ton Mexican man dies of heart failure

Jose Luis Garza (pictured) of Juarez Mexico has died of heart failure. The 47-year-old man weighed 990 pounds.

Emergency officials had to knock down Jose Luis Garza's bedroom wall and put him in the back of a friend's pickup truck to take him to a hospital as he fought for his life. He was pronounced dead on arrival.



Garza followed in the footsteps of the world's fattest man, fellow Mexican Manuel Uribe of Monterrey, by taking his weight problem public. Garza lived about an hour away from Uribe in the northern town of Juarez.

Farza’s friend Manuel Uribe, whose record weight of 1,230 pounds earned him a place in the 2008 Guinness Book of Records, had tried to help Garza by sending him kiwis, grapefruit, pears and a protein supplement.

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