World's fattest man eyes slimming record

Mexico's Manuel Uribe, once the world's most obese man, is now vying for a different record: the human who has lost the most weight.

Uribe, who weighed as much as a small truck at more than half a ton, is dieting while confined to a reinforced bed that he has not left for the past six years because he is so heavy.

He has lost 235 kg since March 2006 on a diet of grapefruits, egg-white only omelets, fish, chicken, vegetables and peanuts.