Healthy Beating

Channel hopping and bored, Michael and I watched a show on channel five for no other reason than it's title: 'Larger than Life: Eating themselves to DEATH!!' About food addiction, it was all very sad and so on, but there came a point where you couldn't help wondering just how sharp these guys were. One guy got himself to 56 stone, had to be winched to hospital where they stuck him in a weight loss clinic, gave him a special diet and a final chance, all at a cost of £200 a day to the state. Now this was going fine, he was losing the pounds, slimming down, until his wife came along, felt sorry for him and started smuggling him in buckets of chicken! What is up with these people? After a month he'd gained two stone! They asked her why she fed him and she said, 'well urgh, he ain't so happy cos he's fat, and I want him to be happy, and when he eats he gets happy, and I love seeing him happy.' I'd laugh if it weren't so heartbreaking. Of course being channel five, the second question they asked her was how they had sex. Yeh, I felt like a great human being watching this show. The guy, halfway through munching on his second pizza, came up with a great quote: 'Lotta people think pizza's bad for you, well it ain't, it's like a whole meal in one. Ya got the bread y'see... well... that's yuh bread, the tomatos are yuh vegetables, and the cheese, well that's yuh protein...' Yeh, like I'm gonna take nutritional advice from a man who weighs 56 stone. Michael said they should make a show about us: 'Square Eyes: The brothers who watched tv themselves to DEATH!!'