Jon Brower Minnoch was the Heaviest Man ever in history.

  • Born – 29 September 1941 in Bainbridge Island, Washington state , USA
  • Height – 6 ft 1 inch or 185 cm
  • Maximum weight approximate – 634 kilograms or 1400 lbs.
  • At age 12 his weights was almost 132 kg and by 22 years 392 lbs or 178 kg.
  • 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 )
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