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Monday 18 August 2014

The world's fattest man who ate himself to death: Confined to his bed and too large for surgery, how Ricky Naputi finally lost his battle with food addiction

  • The man from Guam weighed more than 400 kilos (900 pounds) at heaviest
  • Ricky was too heavy for weight loss surgery and was told to lose weight 
  • He was the subject of the TLC documentary '900-pound man'
  • Ricky failed to shed even just 45 kilograms (100 pounds) to have surgery
  • His marriage with wife and primary carer Cheryl broke down
  • Doctors from America, Guam and Australia tried to help the man
  • He died from morbid obesity on November 10, 2012

  • For many years Ricky Naputi, who at his heaviest tipped the scales at more than 400 kilograms (900 pounds), battled with his food addiction, and at the time of his death hadn't walked on his own for more than 7 years.
    His wife Cheryl described looking after him as 'just like taking care of an overgrown baby', and Ricky fell in and out of a deep depression over the state his life was in.
    The couple live on the island of Guam, just a four hour flight from Brisbane - where 6 out of 10 people are classified as either overweight or

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