Man Believed to Be the World’s Heaviest Set to Undergo Bypass Surgery in Mexico Euronews
go to original May 6, 2017

The man believed to be the world’s heaviest was preparing on Friday to undergo biliopancreatic bypass surgery in Mexico (Euronews/BTMG)

Update: World’s Heaviest Man Has Undergone Successful Gastric Bypass Surgery (Daily News)

In Mexico, the world’s reportedly heaviest man is finally set to undergo surgery.

Juan Pedro Franco, who once weighed over 1,300 pounds has spent most of the last six years confined to a bed. He will have a gastric bypass next week.

The 32-year-old has already shed nearly 400 pounds over the last three months at a special weight-loss clinic to prepare for the operation.

Doctors hope it will help reduce his weight by 50 percent.

...At his heaviest he was almost as obese as fellow Mexican Manual Uribe – who was once considered the world’s fattest man before he died in 2014.

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