Who is the fattest person in the world today?

Hi Nushnush,


After doing some online research, as well as reading the last 12 books
of the Guiness Book of World Records, which is the standard for
verifying this and many other records, no one has this record in the
present.

Quoting Mark Young, from Guiness America for ABC News:
"Surprisingly, there are a lot of guys claiming to have the world's
longest fingernails... Not as many claim they're the heaviest."


The most recent heaviest man alive record holder was T.J. Albert
Jackson, most commonly known as "Fat Albert".  However, it was
confirmed in 2000 that Jackson had died in 1988.

The article from ABC News can be found here:

http://www.hrb.at/bzt/doc/zgt/b7/presse/abc17122000.htm

There is a book in Amazon.com that mentions "Fat Albert" as the
heaviest man alive.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471381187/002-9381663-8114428?v=glance&vi=excerpt

The excerpt from the book is stored in the Cached version of the same
page, which can be seen here:

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:QDD5XN0lWiwJ:www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471381187%3Fv%3Dglance%26vi%3Dexcerpt+%22albert+jackson%22+heaviest&hl=en

Other old news can be found here:

http://www.langston.com/Fun_People/1996/1996BAE.html

The heaviest man in medical history was John Brower Minnoch.  He died
in 1983, but his record is still in the Guiness Book of World Records.

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=48383

I hope this information answers your question.  If you feel that this
answer was clear enough, please post a clarification comment and I'll
gladly respond to it.

Thanks.

kasht-ga

search strategy: 

Google.com: "heaviest man", "Albert Jackson" heaviest, "Albert Jackson" pounds
guinnessworldrecords.com: heaviest man
Searched Guiness Books from 1993-2004

Not me...:)

As a reference point, there was a man on the news recently who had
lost over 450 lbs... but before he was started on a strict diet he was
over 1000 lbs.  So I'd guess the heaviest is still over 1000.  Hard to
imagine that much weight on one person.

I do remember when I was younger seeing a 1000 lb man in the news who
got cought in his doorway when he tried to leave his room.