Friday, January 23, 2009

World's Smallest Things...

"Dancer"
a Chihuahua from Okahumpka, Florida who weighs only 18 oz and stands 4.1" tall
-paw to shoulder-
He Pingping
standing 2ft 5in
from China

only 7.9mm long!!!

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

World's Biggest Woman



Renee Williams, an American woman from Austin, Texas was the heaviest woman in the world at the time of her death in 2007, aged 29, due to morbid obesity.

She was "super-morbidly obese" from the age of 12 upwards, and became a mother at age 16. In 2003, she was involved in a car crash which the psychological effect of caused her to binge-eat even more, making her gain around 420 lbs in the process, with reports of her eating up to eight burgers at a time while she was bedridden.

At 406kg, 29-year-old Renee Williams is the world's biggest woman. Confined to her bed, Renee begged doctors to perform an operation when she became so large that she couldn't hug her own children. She's waited 12 years for the gastric bypass surgery to help her get back on her feet... but it may just be too late.

She was also the subject of a British television program called "Half Ton Mum" broadcast on Channel 4 in the after her death as part of the BodyShock series. This stated that she also held the world record for being the heaviest person ever to have gastric bypass surgery on her stomach at 70 stone, or around 980lbs, although she died 12 days later due to a heart attack. When Renee went into hospital for her gastric bypass surgery, her Body Mass Index was calculated by the doctors to be 113 kg/m², where a BMI of 50+ is considered "super-morbidly obese".

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

RARE MEDICAL CASES

. Chinese woman, Wang Chen, suffers elephantiasis which has left her with legs weighing 50 kilos



Indian 'goddess' ... baby Lali was born with two faces but her parents say she is eating and breathing normally. Many locals in the deeply religious country consider her a deity



Duangjai Samaksamarn has the world's biggest hands

Heavy ... her oversized hands and arms are caused by an imbalance in hormones



Dede's warts are thought to be life threatening but American dermatologist Anthony Gaspari (L) is hopeful he will be able to successfully treat the 35-year-old's condition



"Tree man"... but in Indonesia, experts are still trying to find out why a man has grown incredibly long warts on his hands and feet that resemble tree roots



Rex Xin from China underwent a lengthy operation to remove a "spare" arm from her back



15-year-old Vietnamese girl Lai Thi Dao has had the largest-ever reported Schwannoma tumour entirely removed from her face after 12 hour surgery in Miami