Mexico's Manuel Uribe, once the world's most obese man, will shortly be seen being driven around Monterrey city on board a converted 1989 Chevrolet Astrovan.

Uribe, who weighed as much as a small truck at more than half a tonne, is dieting while confined to a reinforced bed that he has not left for the past six years due to his extreme weight.

Meme, as he is known by family and friends, has lost 518 pounds since March 2006, has been on a diet of grapefruits, egg-white only omelets, fish, chicken, vegetables and peanuts.

FOR the UK’s 15 million snorers, nighttime can involve disturbed sleep for the snorer and their bed partner.

But the effects of snoring don’t stop there. The condition can also cause unwanted physical and psychological side effects, for adults and children alike.

 Researchers from Monash University in Australia found that larger waist circumference and body mass indexes were tied to both knee and hip replacements.

In fact, once I am in my full costume, I can't run, walk, dance, laugh or jump without difficulty. I can, however, move sideways like a crab if required.

The moniker “Stockyards Buddha? might be up for grabs. Fort Worth Weekly bestowed that tag on singer-songwriter Brad Hines in 2007, partly because of his kind and spiritual nature but mostly because he was built like that big-bellied, smiling, Asian guy in those statues.

Two years and 200 pounds later, Hines is starting to resemble his former self.

Call her the biggest loser, a fraction of her former self or whatever else, but Linda Hasenstein casts a far smaller shadow these days.

Eighteen months after undergoing gastric bypass surgery, the 61-year-old Sheboygan woman has dropped from 309 to 186 pounds. The change has liberated her from Type 2 diabetes and depression and launched a new lifestyle that once seemed out of reach.