Michel Lotito, born in France in 1950, consumed 9 tons of metal between 1959 and 1997, including bicycles, televisions, and even a Cessna plane. Doctors found no problems in his stomach and concluded that an extra thick gastrointestinal lining was responsible for his ability to eat metal. He died of natural causes in 2007.
Diet plans range from the restrictive to the radical, but it would be hard to eat more wildly than Michel Lotito, born in Grenoble, France, in 1950. One day, the glass from which a young Lotito was drinking broke, but rather than spit out the shards , chewed and swallowed them. He then began knocking down glass and metal on a regular basis, showing no signs of damage. From 1966 onwards, his diet included 18 bicycles, seven televisions, a computer, six light fixtures, skis, two beds, an entire coffin, and even a Cessna plane, all in bits and pieces. Doctors X-rayed Lotito’s stomach and found no problems, eventually concluding that an extra thick gastrointestinal lining was responsible for his ability to gobble up 2 pounds (9 kg) of metal every day. He is estimated to have consumed about nine tons of the metal between 1959 and 1997. Lotito, who once said he couldn’t digest soft foods like hard-boiled eggs and bananas, died of natural causes in 2007 at age 57. .
Learn more about diets:
Considering himself overweight, the Englishman William the Conqueror once “did down” by consuming almost nothing but alcohol for a year; reportedly, he worked.
When Oprah Winfrey bought a 10 percent stake in Weight Watchers in 2015, the diet program’s stock price soared nearly 400 percent.
Only about 1% of overweight people can blame their DNA; poor diets and sedentary lifestyles are almost always the real culprits.
Protect your devices with Threat Protection by NordVPN
