Nitrox Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 Another high water mark in socialized medicine. We have much to learn from Europe (and England)! Britain's fattest woman dies of heart attack after junk food binge in hospital bed By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Last updated at 10:16 AM on 26th July 2010 Comments (201) Add to My Stories Britain's fattest woman has died from a heart attack after her family smuggled takeaways and junk food into her hospital room, it has been revealed. Junk food addict Sharon Mevsimler, 40, weighed 45 stone and needed an oxygen mask due to the strain her weight put on her heart and lungs. But witnesses at Broomfield Hospital - where she had been a patient for two months - said relatives brought in fish and chips and family-sized buckets of fried chicken to the mother-of-four. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1297646/Britains-fattest-woman-Sharon-Mevsimler-dies-heart-attack-binge.html#ixzz0ur6ktNR1 Mrs Mevsimler, whose husband Bulent gave up his job as a chef to look after her, died at the weekend. An NHS source told The Sun: 'She obviously had a serious underlying problem with food, but did nothing to help herself. 'Those who came to visit her in hospital did her no favours. 'We saw them bringing in various fatty foods like fish and chips and huge portions of fried chicken when she should not have been eating these things. 'It was infuriating to see her literally eating herself to death.' The mother-of-four, who was just 5ft tall, had received 24-hour care since 2005 - including a three-month stint in the exclusive £5,000-a-month Priory Clinic paid for by the NHS. She had begun to comfort eat after suffering severe post-natal depression. She is also believed to have undergone a £30,000 gastric by-pass operation earlier this year. Doctors told her she had just months to live in 2007 because of her size - then 42 stone. Mrs Mevsimler said earlier this month: 'I have been left to die. If I was anorexic I would get proper help but no one has sympathy for obese people.' She had been confined to a specially strengthened bed at the hospital in Chelmsford. The hospital has refused to comment. Her death comes just months after Britain's biggest man - 70-stone Paul Mason from Ipswich - underwent a gastric by-pass to control his obesity. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1297646/Britains-fattest-woman-Sharon-Mevsimler-dies-heart-attack-binge.html#ixzz0upCUjmQ5 Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 Can you show me how you set the Jerry Springer Filter on your Googlez? Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 Don't get me wrong, The Globe is a great paper. Quote
G-spotter Posted July 28, 2010 Posted July 28, 2010 That is so common in America it never makes the news. That chick is pretty much normal weight by US standards. Quote
Nitrox Posted July 29, 2010 Author Posted July 29, 2010 That is so common in America it never makes the news. That chick is pretty much normal weight by US standards. Funny you mention that, that woman weighed around 650lbs and is the fattest in GB? That doesn't really rate compared to our heavies I don't think. Maybe hooray for soshulyzed medicyne? Hmmmmmm Quote
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