Jose Luis Garza “Half-Ton Man” Dies (Photos)

Jose Luis Garza, a 990-pound bedridden man who had asked on television for help with his weight problem died Tuesday of heart failure, his family said. Read more below on Jose Luis Garza “Half-Ton Man”.

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An emergency team had to knock down Jose Luis Garza’s bedroom wall and load him onto the back of a friend’s pickup truck as he fought for his life. Jose Luis Garza, 47, was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.

Garza had attempted to follow in Manuel Uribe’s footsteps and take his weight problem public, hoping for help to finally lose the weight.

Garza always had problems with his weight but became depressed after his parents’ deaths. Garza had been stuck in bed for over four months.

Over the weekend, Garza became worse and he struggled to eat and breathe. Family members were angry that state officials hadn’t helped Garza to the hospital before he became so ill.

“If he had received support at the time he asked for it, he would still be with us,” said his brother Pedro Garza.

But State officials say there wasn’t much more they could have done in the situation.

“The attention he would have received at a hospital would have been the same he got at home,” said Julio Cesar Cano, spokesman for the Nuevo Leon state health department. “Moving a patient of that magnitude is very difficult. A normal ambulance won’t work.”

Manuel Uribe, whose record weight of 1,230 pounds earned him a place in the 2008 Guinness Book of Records, has claimed to have lost around 550 pounds by following the Zone Diet invented by Dr. Barry Sears.

Uribe tried to help Jose Luis Garza by sending him kiwis, grapefruit, pears and a protein supplement. Uribe’s fiancee, Claudia Solis, delivered the food on Friday evening.

That is really a sad situation and our condolences to his family and friends.

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