Mexican Man, Earlier World's Heaviest, Dies at 48

A Mexican man, earlier the world's heaviest human, when he weighed 597 kilos (1,316 pounds), has died at the age of 48, medical officials said Monday. Preliminary reports say Manuel Uribe died due to an irregular heartbeat and an ailment linked to the loss of fluids in his legs, an official at the University Hospital in the northern city of Monterrey told AFP. After he was listed as the world's heaviest human by the Guinness World Records in 2007, Uribe ...