Paul Mason, once the most grossly obese man on the planet, wants to sue Britain’s National Health Service for “letting him grow”. At one stage Mason weighed in at very nearly 410 Kg, but after gastric-bypass surgery the virtually waif-like Mason now weighs 235 Kg.

Mason says he wants to sue the NHS for failing to prevent his eating himself to death over the last 14 years. When he weighed 200 Kg in 1996 he said that he saw an NHS doctor who told him to “Ride Your Bike More”. To the uneducated this is probably advice Mason should have taken in. But after a few more years the only thing Mason was taking in was 20 000 calories a day, about 10 times the intake of a healthy adult male. And the cost of caring for Paul all these years? Almost a £1 000,000.

To contextualize: Other things that weigh about 400 Kg:

• Cow
• Hooded Seal
• Hammerhead Shark
• Two to three gorillas

[Source : The Sun]