Pedro Franco was so heavy he couldn’t walk, and he had to be transported to hospital using a metal zimmer frame

He is now free of the diabetes and hypertension that put him in grave danger.

Juan Pedro was dubbed the world’s fattest man by Guinness World Records in 2017.

Record-breaking compatriot Manuel Uribe, the heaviest man in the world before him, lost half his body weight with the help of doctors and nutritionists after reaching his peak weight of 94 stone.

He died in his native city of Monterrey in northern Mexico on May 26 2014 aged 48. He was 62 stone at the time.

Uribe drew worldwide attention in January 2006 when he made an emotional plea on a Mexican TV network that prompted both private and public help.

He was also featured on ‘The World’s Heaviest Man’, a 2007 television documentary about his bedridden life and attempts to overcome his obesity.

The former world’s fattest man spoke to Telemundo about his lifesaving weight loss operations

Pedro Franco with Mexican TV reporter Blanchet Valadez after his story made global headlines

Nearly 75 per cent of adults in Mexico are considered overweight or obese and the prevalence of diabetes ranks among the highest in the world.

The country recently declared a nationwide epidemiological emergency on diabetes.

The world’s heaviest man ever has been named as Jon Brower Minnoch – said to have weighed more than 100 stone when he was admitted to a US hospital in 1978. He died five years later weighing 57 stone.

A Brit who used to describe himself as the world’s fattest man begged the NHS for weight loss surgery in September after moving back to the UK from America.

Former postman Paul Mason, 59, originally from Ipswich, Suffolk, tipped the scales at 70 stone at his heaviest.

He revealed in May he was returning to Britain five years after leaving following a painful split with his fiancee.

He wrote on Facebook after announcing his decision: ‘I need to return to the UK where I will be eligible for the assistance I need to get my life back on track.

Source: Dailymail.co.uk