Half-ton Mexican man loses 200 pounds

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MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Manuel Uribe weighed 1,235 pounds when he made a desperate plea for help on national television in January 2006.

Unable to leave his bed for five years, the 41-year-old mechanic in the northern industrial city of Monterrey longed to move again and get help for the lesions on his legs, which he kept bound together with duct tape to keep the infections from getting worse.

His plea was answered by doctors and nutritionists who prescribed a high-protein diet and suggested gastric bypass surgery, and Uribe has lost some 200 pounds since February.

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