MONTERREY: When critically obese, bedridden Jose Luis Garza pleaded for help in shedding a few hundred pounds, he landed the world's biggest weight watcher.

Garza is getting diet advice from Manuel Uribe, a fellow Mexican who has been fighting to lose his title as the world's heaviest man. Both men live around the Monterrey area in Mexico. Neither can get out of bed.

Although Garza has not been on a scale in years, doctors estimate he could weigh about 450 kgs. He got a call from Uribe after going on national television to plead for help.

"Manuel inspires me with courage and the will to live, Garza said. "I understand that this is matter of life and death and that I have to follow the instructions that are given to me."

This year, the Guinness Book of World Records declared Uribe, who tipped the scales at 560 kg in 2006,the worlds heaviest man. "I have no interest in reaching that record," Garza said.

Uribe, 43, has since shed about 250 kgs with the help of his girlfriend Claudia Solis. Uribe sent Solis to Garzas home on Friday night with kiwis, grapefruit and pears, along with protein supplements recommended by his diet doctors. Garza, who used to work as a chef at a bowling alley, said he has always been overweight and blamed a diet of junk food and greasy tacos.
Source : DNA