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The Half Ton Man

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Documentary Log in lifestyle, society
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This is a documentary about Patrick Deuel, a 1000lbs man who desired food more than life itself. I found this documentary slightly upsetting, and wouldn't recommend it to the weak at heart.

The documentary opens with paramedics removing a wall of his house in Valentine, Nebraska and transporting him six hours to a hospital where he spent months trying to lose weight to qualify for a gastric bypass operation.

The documentary moves among (primarily) Patrick and two others who are morbidly obese and their loved ones, neighbors and doctors. It examines how they got that way, what made them that way and how they have succeeded and failed in their struggles to change.

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6 Comment(s):
posted on December 02, 2009, 07:08:52 PM
comment #2604 Joe

What's interesting about all cases of addiction is that there's always an enabler and in this case it's the wife.

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posted on September 13, 2009, 05:22:21 PM
comment #1545 habler

How did this guy even get married ? no offence.

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posted on February 25, 2009, 04:49:19 PM
comment #558 joe hawk

damn, time to get that extra day at the gym! booyah

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posted on February 19, 2009, 07:38:21 PM
comment #520 24

Albeit, this man is of the extreme, obesity is a serious issue in North America as well as in some parts of Europe just as the polar opposite of famine/starvation is also a serious issue. It is easy to judge such a replusive looking person, but one has to understand this diease, they cannot stop eating like a normal person. Usually an obese person will lose the weght, but the brain will fight to get you back to what your predisposition body weight is. It must be horrible to have a life battle of weight issues, especially to this extreme, because people who suffer this, their brain is always telling them they are hungry whether their stomach is full or not.

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posted on February 18, 2009, 09:47:47 AM
comment #513 spacebunny

"I found this documentary slightly upsetting, and wouldn't recommend it to the weak at heart."

More like weak at stomach. This documentary makes me want to skip meals when I think of it.

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posted on February 17, 2009, 09:36:37 AM
comment #508 Kim

this guy is such a dickhead.

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